Hi Tom, On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 6:55 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Yurii Rashkovskii <yra...@gmail.com> writes: > > I would like to suggest a patch against master (although it may be worth > > backporting it) that makes it possible to listen on any unused port. > > I think this is a bad idea, mainly because this: > > > Instead, with this patch, one can specify `port` as `0` (the "wildcard" > > port) and retrieve the assigned port from postmaster.pid > > is a horrid way to find out what was picked, and yet there could > be no other. > I answered you before ( https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA+RLCQwYw-Er-E_RGNCDfA514w+1YL8HGhNstxX=y1glaab...@mail.gmail.com), but I am wondering whether you missed that response. I would really be interested to learn why you think reading port from the pid file is a "horrid way" to find out what was picked. I've outlined my reasoning for this feature in detail in the referenced message. Hope you can consider it. -- http://omnigres.org Yurii
