Michael Paquier <michael.paqu...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> Peter, Dave: maybe you have tweaked things to keep listen_addresses >> empty and rely only on Unix-socket connections?
> Should be so. The target of this feature is development on OSX, right? > And most of the time development would be done only on the local > machine, machine being most of the time a laptop. So instead of adding > an optional step in configure to enforce the creation of a > certificate, why not simply encourage people to use listen_addresses = > '' on OSX by documenting it? Even when working on replication or > related things on a local machine, it is possible to simply pass the > socket directory... Some clients (eg JDBC) don't support Unix-socket connections AFAIK, so this seems like a rather restricted solution. 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