Re: [Gnumed-devel] Postgres questions re pg_hba.conf pg_ident.conf

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 09:39:38AM -0800, James Busser wrote:

> When I installed Postgres on my Mac using binary installer, and ran the 
> bootstrap scripts, the GNUmed client was able to connect to this  
> database without my having done any modifications to the pg_hba.conf etc
Good.

> Did something happen with newer versions of postgres to no longer  
> require this,
No. It is mostly up to the PostgreSQL package maintainers of
the distros which sorts of authentications PG supports out
of the box.

> or may be the bootstrapper now takes care of it,
It can't without complexity bordering on the insane.

> or did the bootstrapper always take care of it ?
No, but it has gotten a lot less demanding (read picky) on
the default setup over the years.

Karsten
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