On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 01:11:11PM -0400, Hardy Merrill wrote: > I'm taking a wild guess here since it's been a long time since I've used > dbiproxy and/or PostgreSQL - going by the error message > > failed: FATAL: IDENT authentication failed for user "mason" > > I'd say that your connection string user name/password was rejected by > Postgres. I've found PostgreSQL's authentication can be rather tricky > to get working right.
You are precisely correct. The issue was clouded by DBI::ProxyServer returning a "user not authenticated" when the database was in fact not running at all, but it was the case. FWIW, the issue involved "ident sameuser" in /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf muffing authentication by requiring that the user making the connection match the database user in question. I think. In any event, trusting locally-originated connections solved the problem. Thank you kindly for your assistance! -- Mason Loring Bliss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rot-180: oN hes +snf http://blisses.org/ awake ? sleep : random() & 2 ? dream : sleep;
