Re: Postgres not starting at boot(FreeBSD) - startup script not releasing < solved

Bingo!  Dumb move.  Dropped everything to password a few months back,  never had
the occasion to restart after that.  Will work on tweaking the pg_hba.conf

Thanks Matthew...  if you are ever in Toronto, I owe you a beer.

Dave

>At a guess, you've set it up to not automatically trust local users, so
>the default options which 'wait' for the server to come up (and "waits"
>by having psql try connecting as the postgres user) waits for a long long
>time for somebody to give it the password it now requires.
>
>I find that rather annoying, and miss it every time, until the rc script
>hangs.  Check the options and figure out which one it is you have to take
>out, I can't recall offhand.
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