Re: pg_hba changes not honored

This problem occurs only when the changes are made while postmaster is
running and pg_ctl is used to reload config files.

When the changes are applied and postmaster is stopped and restarted, it
works fine.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:jd@commandprompt.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 3:44 PM
To: Tom Lane
Cc: Sriram Dandapani; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] pg_hba changes not honored

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Sriram Dandapani" <sdandapani@counterpane.com> writes:
>> When I update pg_hba.conf to disallow certain client machines from
>> connectiong (update pg_hba.conf, pg_ctl reload), I still see new
>> connections appearing in the process list from the clients I want to
>> disconnect.
>
> Sounds to me like a mistake in your pg_hba file, ie, there is still
> a line that allows them to connect.  We've also heard of people
editing
> the wrong copy of pg_hba.conf, or sighup'ing the wrong postmaster ...

That is actually quite common, especially on Ubuntu :)

Joshua D. Drake

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