Indeed! I'd also note that I was unable to fix the file with Notepad++ because I was saving it with "Encoding > Encode in UTF-8" rather than ">Encode in UTF-8 without BOM" The "BOM" was the bit causing the trouble at the start of the file.
Thanks again, Rob On 9 October 2014 14:41, Adrian Klaver <adrian.kla...@aklaver.com> wrote: > On 10/09/2014 02:37 PM, Rob Flemming wrote: > >> You were right! (Of course, you knew that.) >> >> I typed a new pg_hba.conf from scratch without all the comments, i.e. >> only the connection strings, it worked. >> >> Thank you 'Community'! >> >> (Doh! My kids think I'm so smart because I work on computers, some day >> they'll discover the truth. Now to spend the afternoon backing up that >> data...) >> >> > The moral to this story is never let Notepad near anything you care about. > If you have to use one of the MS apps to edit a text file use Wordpad, > otherwise stick with Notepad++. > > >> > > -- > Adrian Klaver > adrian.kla...@aklaver.com >
