Re: [ADMIN] stats and unix sockets

2011-12-21 Thread Bèrto ëd Sèra
Hi! Can you create a virtual network interface, assign an address to it and > have PostgreSQL listen to it in addition to the socket? I'm thinking not > the eth0:X type but potentially what VirtualBox (vboxnet0), VMware (vmnet0) > or other virtualization products do using brctl. > This might act

Re: [ADMIN] stats and unix sockets

2011-12-21 Thread Greg Spiegelberg
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Bèrto ëd Sèra wrote: > Hi! > > >> That's a pretty stupid requirement. The stats collector socket is bound >> to itself, so it's inaccessible from anywhere else (on machine or off) >> regardless of firewall settings. There's no need to worry about it, >> and no th

Re: [ADMIN] stats and unix sockets

2011-12-21 Thread Bèrto ëd Sèra
Hi! > That's a pretty stupid requirement. The stats collector socket is bound > to itself, so it's inaccessible from anywhere else (on machine or off) > regardless of firewall settings. There's no need to worry about it, > and no there is not a provision for doing it via unix socket instead. >

Re: [ADMIN] stats and unix sockets

2011-12-21 Thread Tom Lane
=?UTF-8?B?QsOocnRvIMOrZCBTw6hyYQ==?= writes: > I have a requirement for PG (9.1) to run without any open port at all. That's a pretty stupid requirement. The stats collector socket is bound to itself, so it's inaccessible from anywhere else (on machine or off) regardless of firewall settings. T