Re: Cannot *start* server because of a typo in pg_hba.conf

On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 10:39 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to drop something to (startup) log file and mention
> > about the syntax error in hba file?
>
> That information would certainly be logged somewhere.  Maybe you
> looked in the wrong log file?  Or you're using one of those
> configurations where early output to stderr goes to /dev/null?

I tried to start postmaster with:

* pg_ctl -D data start
* postmaster -D data
* pg_ctl -D data -l logfile start

None of them logged anything to anywhere. You can reproduce it on your
machine, too.
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