Re: postgres upgrade for dummies?
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 14:20, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:38:52 +0100, Andreas Goesele wrote:
> > So I did read README.Debian.migration.gz and then run postgresql-dump
> > with the options in the README. This is what I got:
> >
> > Stopping and restarting the postmaster
> > /usr/lib/postgresql/dumpall/6.5/postmaster -D /var/lib/postgres/data -p 5431 -o -d0
> > Dumping the database to db.out
> > process_hba_record: invalid syntax in pg_hba.conf file
>
> Switch back to the pg_hba.conf file you used with 6.5. 7.1 has a new
> authentication method "peer" which 6.5 doesn't understand and which 7.1's
> default configuration employs IIRC.
This particular issue will go away in 7.2. The peer authentication
method (checking ownership of a Unix socket connection) has been adopted
upstream but is now called ident, although its method of operation is
actually different from TCP/IP ident authentication.
So, in 7.2, "peer" will again be invalid.
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