Bingo! Dumb move. Dropped everything to password a few months back, never had the occasion to restart after that. Will work on tweaking the pg_hba.conf
Thanks Matthew... if you are ever in Toronto, I owe you a beer. Dave >At a guess, you've set it up to not automatically trust local users, so >the default options which 'wait' for the server to come up (and "waits" >by having psql try connecting as the postgres user) waits for a long long >time for somebody to give it the password it now requires. > >I find that rather annoying, and miss it every time, until the rc script >hangs. Check the options and figure out which one it is you have to take >out, I can't recall offhand. > > > >-- >Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Unix Systems Administrator | [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
