Re: psql: FATAL: missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf file

Tom Lane wrote:

>That's short one "all": you need type, database, user, method columns
>(but no address column for "local").
>
Hi All,

yes, Tom, you're correct. Someone mailed me directly(thank you), with a
link to their site's tut on authentication, and I picked up on it
straight away. Seems the sites I was looking at were wrong. Anyway, I
now get this,

[racket@ibmlap ~]$ psql template1
psql: FATAL:  role "racket" does not exist

Log output:
LOG:  database system is ready
LOG:  transaction ID wrap limit is 2147484146, limited by database
"postgres"
FATAL:  role "racket" does not exist

Which confuses me, as local all all trust should allow me to connect,
no? Or, is there a particular syntax when connecting locally? I can't
imagie that being so, but then agan, I would have expected this to be a
little easier than it has been already. Cheers.

Mark Sargent.