Re: Test mail for pgsql-general

2024-09-10 Thread Chris Miller
Hi Adrian, > First match wins loses in this case. The entries are processed top to > bottom the first the one matches in this case: > > local all all peer > > Per This answers my question. Thanks for the help, -- Chris.

Re: Test mail for pgsql-general

2024-09-10 Thread Chris Miller
Hi David, > The second line is pointless, the first three columns are compared against the > incoming connection host/user/dbname to find out how authentication should be > handled. The first match wins. So for every local connection peer, and only > peer, is going to be used since everything mat

Re: Test mail for pgsql-general

2024-09-10 Thread Chris Miller
Hi Folks, I am confused about authentication. I understand that in the local connection case, I have choices of “peer”, and “md5” (password). In pg_hba.conf, I have the lines: local all all peer local all all md5 I have an OS user “postgres”, and I can “su – postgres”, which brings me to