Re: [Novice] questions on pg_hba.conf and stopping postmaster in cygwin

"Juliet May" <jmay@speark.com> writes:
> The postmaster log says ' "arse_hba: invalid syntax in pg_hba.conf file at =
> line 1, token "trust'

This looks like you've got DOS-style newlines (CR/LF) rather than
Unix-style (LF only) in the pg_hba.conf file.  The pg_hba code is
picky about that.  (Probably it shouldn't be, but that won't help you
today.)

> I edited the pg_hba.conf file in notepad and I think that could be causing =
> the error. Is there another option for editing the file that I should use?

Dunno if Notepad has heard that there are other conventions for line
endings besides Microsoft's.  Can anyone recommend a better choice of
editor?

            regards, tom lane