From: Peter Sabaini <peter.sabaini@ait.ac.at>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Statistics collector port / unix dom. socket?
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 21:41:21 +0200
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On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 11:39 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Sabaini <peter.sabaini@ait.ac.at> writes:
> > it seems Postgres tries to send a UDP packet to a random high port to
> > communicate with the statistics collector daemon. We have rather strict
> > packet filter rules in place, and I'd like to make the system use a
> > fixed port for this, or even better a Unix domain socket. Is this
> > possible (setting a compile time or run time parameter)?
>
> No, the stats collector just uses whatever port bind() chooses for it.
A pity.
> I'd suggest backing off your ideas about how much filtering is
> appropriate for local connections.
Since we're running multiple database instances with different projects
on one machine I'd like to isolate them as best I can.
Thanks anyway...
peter.
>
> regards, tom lane
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