I would recommend one on the default port (5432). I have also used, without problems (on RedHat 7.3) ports 5434, 5435, 5436, 5437, 15437.
What I would do (more experienced people, pls. correct me) is to check your /etc/services file to see what ports are used for what (e.g.:
...
cfengine 5308/tcp # CFengine
cfengine 5308/udp # CFengine
...
Means: if you use Cold Fusion (cf) don't use port 5308.
If you use outside packages that use a port but are not standard (sorry, no good examples), avoid their port(s).
It used to be that any port over 10,000 was "open". I suspect it's not really true anymore, but usually safe.
You can also change your port at any time by changing (or adding) the value in postgresql.conf:
port = 5432
can become:
port = 15432
or
port = 5434
etc.
Andrew
Paul Gimpelj wrote:
thanks
have running simo,
Have you any suggestions on port numbers?
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 8:23 AM
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] two versions on same linux
yup, just configure both on differnt ports
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 12:14 PM
Subject: [ADMIN] two versions on same linux
Hi,
I have redhat 7.3 and postgres 7.2
Is there a way to have 7.4 installed together with postgres 7.2 ? and both running at the same time,
with of course different data directories.
should i use the generic postgres or the rpm'd.
The existing redhat has no passwords for postgres, and even if if assign one to user postgres,
postgres ignores it.
thanks
paul