Tom Lane wrote:
> "Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net> writes:
> > Are there any other platforms which don't have unix sockets?
>
> There are a couple, although I think those ports may be moribund
> (if anyone still cares about BeOS, they haven't mentioned it lately).
>
> > Perhaps we should force it to open a tcp socket on 127.0.0.1 only? That
> > way we don't suddenly open up to external connections without the user
> > asking for it.
>
> That seems like a reasonable compromise.
Agreed, but how do we do that. pg_hba.conf already only listens on
127.0.0.1. Do we ignore non-local IPs in that file until they use -i?
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