Psycopg2 reporting pg_hba.conf error

Question

I\'ve run into a weird situation while trying to use PostgreSQL and Psycopg2. For some reason, every time I attempt to connect to the postgre database via python, I get the foll

Answer 1

Typical explanations include:

• You are connecting to the wrong server.
  Is the DB server running on the same host as Python does?

• You got the wrong port.
  Check the server log if you see a connection attempt. You have to log connections for that, of course. See the config parameter log_connections.

• You did not reload (SIGHUP) the server after changing pg_hba.conf - or reloaded the wrong cluster (if you have multiple DB clusters).
  Use pg_ctl or pg_ctlcluser on Debian and derivatives for that.