Re: Concurrent Connections - User only allowed one

AND Are you sure this is the right pg_hba.conf?  It's a common mistake for
people to install postgresql from .tar.gz file on a machine with an RPM
install of postgresql already in place and have these kinds of issues.

On 3 Oct 2003, Dave Cramer wrote:

> and you HUPPED postmaster after changing this?
>
> --dc--
> On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 10:32, Gordon Ross wrote:
> > OK, error from server.log:
> >
> > FATAL:  No pg_hba.conf entry for host 192.168.24.108, user postgres, database switchboards
> >
> > entries in pg_hba.conf:
> >
> > # TYPE  DATABASE    USER        IP-ADDRESS        IP-MASK           METHOD
> >
> > local   all         all                                             trust
> > host    all         all         127.0.0.1         255.255.255.255   trust
> > host    all         all         192.168.24.108    255.255.255.255   trust
> >
> > 192.168.24.108 is my PCs IP address.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > GTG
> >
> > >>> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> 03/10/2003 15:24:47 >>>
> > Paul Thomas <paul@tmsl.demon.co.uk> writes:
> > > On 03/10/2003 11:35 Gordon Ross wrote:
> > >> OK. I increased it from the default of 32 to 128 and did a pg_ctl
> > >> reload. Still get the same problem. With server running (but doing
> > >> nothing), cannot connect from PC, I get the error message: "No
> > >> pg_hba.conf entry for host 192.168.24.108" - yet shutting down the
> > >> server process allows the PC to connect.
> >
> > > Wierd. It sounds like your server program is grabbing every possible
> > > tcp/ip connection to the db.
> >
> > I don't think that's the issue at all --- if it were an
> > out-of-connections situation, that error message would not be what comes
> > up.  But I cannot think how the presence of one connection would affect
> > the ability of another to match a pg_hba.conf entry.  What do you have
> > in pg_hba.conf, anyway??  Does the complaint message actually match your
> > PC's address?  (And let's see the entire error message, please, not an
> > edited subset.  Looking in the postmaster log to see if more is reported
> > there would be helpful too.)
> >
> >             regards, tom lane
> >
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