Re: DBI::Pg

Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]> Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:25:34 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.dbdpg
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On 11/10/2011 12:33 PM, John Arnold wrote:
> Gentlemen
>
> I am having a little connectivity issue, that I think might be PostgreSQL related  and not DBI::Pg per se (but I have to start somewhere :) )
>
> The error: seems to indicate a local issue rather than a remote issue. Why is the script looking for a local pg_hba.conf file?
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> DBI connect('dbname=taskman;host=xx.xxx.xx.xx;port=5432','postgres',...) failed: FATAL:  could not load pg_hba.conf at C:/Documents and Settings/xxxxxxx/workspace/Forms/pg_connect.pl
>
> seems to indicate a local issue rather than a remote issue. Why is the script looking for a local pg_hba.conf file, since this conf file controls client connections on the SERVER side?
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
>

This part:

    FATAL:  could not load pg_hba.conf


is from the server. The rest is from the client. Find out what's wrong 
with the server's pg_hba.conf file. This is not a DBD::Pg issue.

cheers

andrew