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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Sabaini <peter.sabaini@ait.ac.at>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Statistics collector port / unix dom. socket?
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 16:09:12 -0400
Message-ID: <19082.1273003752@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1273002081.2590.7.camel@w-ehs-psa.telbiomed.at>
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Peter Sabaini <peter.sabaini@ait.ac.at> writes:
> On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 11:39 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> 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. 

Since the stats collector uses pre-bound UDP sockets, it should not be
possible for any interference to occur.  If anything other than other
processes in the same PG herd is able to send a message on that socket,
it would be a kernel bug.

			regards, tom lane



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