Andrew, Tom:
This will be a really nice feature for those of us with PG servers that
participate in VPNs. Currently I'm blocking certain interfaces using
pg_hba.conf but would prefer a "listen" address instead.
Of course, the drawback to this is that confused DBAs will have their
pg_hba.conf conflict with their postgresql.conf, and cut off all access to
the DB. But I don't know how we can protect against that.
Might I suggest that this default to "127.0.0.1" in postgresql.conf.sample?
This is a reasonably safe default, and would allow us to use the same default
for Windows as for other OSes. It would also eliminate about 15% of the
questions I get on a weekly basis from PHP users. ("uncomment the line
tcpip_sockets ...").
If I had time, I would also love to see setting the password for the postgres
user become part of the initdb script. However, I can see that this wouldn't
work with packages.
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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco