On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:15 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> We most certainly do print something --- in your example I get this: > > LOG: invalid authentication method "127.0.0.1" > CONTEXT: line 81 of configuration file "/home/postgres/data/pg_hba.conf" > FATAL: could not load pg_hba.conf > > I suspect you are using a configuration that redirects the postmaster's > log to /dev/null, or some equally unhelpful place :-(. > > FWIW, this message comes out after the logging settings in > postgresql.conf have been adopted, so you should look to those to see > where the message actually went. Errors in postgresql.conf itself > typically get reported on postmaster's stderr. You are right, I wasn't looking at the right place (I was a user of Postgres a very long time ago). Sorry for this unnecessary bug report, and thanks to you and to Euler who answered as well. Best regards, Olivier Jeannet. -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs