"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 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster