Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes: > On sön, 2012-06-10 at 17:24 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: >>> Why would that matter? If you configure M ports and N Unix socket >>> locations, you get M*N actual sockets created.
>> ...I *seriously* doubt that this is the behavior anyone wants. >> Creating M sockets per directory seems patently silly. > How else would it work? > If I say, syntax aside, listen on "ports" 5432 and 5433, and use socket > directories /tmp and /var/run/postgresql, then a libpq-using client > would expect to be able to connect using This argument seems quite circular to me: you are assuming that we will adopt exactly the behavior that Robert is questioning. What would make more sense to me is (1) there is still a *single* "port" parameter, which is what we use for things like shared memory keys; (2) listen_addresses (and the hypothetical socket_directories list) grows the ability to specify a port number in any list element. The primary port number parameter sets the default. So for instance port = 5432 listen_addresses = '*, 127.0.0.1:5433' results in listening on *:5432 and 127.0.0.1:5433. > So you do need to create M*N sockets. > I don't really see a problem with that. I do: first, it's a lotta sockets, and second, it's not real hard to foresee cases where somebody actively doesn't want that cross-product. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers