"Graham Vickrage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have just exited from a psql session where I dropped a table and then
> immediately logged back in and now I am getting: -

> IDENT authentication failed for user 'postgres'

> I have checked all the usual; ph_hba.conf, pg_shadow, restarting postmaster
> with -i and environment variable PGHOST=localhost.

Did you look in the postmaster log?  There should be a more-detailed
message there.

A first guess, though, is that your identd daemon stopped running.

                        regards, tom lane

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