On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote:
> On sön, 2012-06-10 at 17:24 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > > >> and also affects the naming of any UNIX sockets created. > > > > > > 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 > > -h /tmp -p 5432 > -h /tmp -p 5433 > -h /var/run/postgresql -p 5432 > -h /var/run/postgresql -p 5433 > > So you do need to create M*N sockets. > > I don't really see a problem with that. > What about entries in pg_hba.conf? Will they need to be able to specify both the directory and the port number? -- Mike Nolan
