"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.
regards, tom lane