"Anony Mous" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If so, why not set the listen_addresses to '*' right away?
Security. It was difficult enough to get people to accept the current liberalized default --- I don't think they'll go for defaulting to -i, which is essentially what you're asking for. It's seen as a good thing that there are two, not one, levels of protection between you and having a database server that's wide open to the entire internet. > but it always fails because I don't know how to add the password for the > super user into the command line, and of course the super user will always > have a password. Is there a way to do this? Create a .pgpass file maybe? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings