On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Bèrto ëd Sèra <berto.d.s...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi! > > >> That's a pretty stupid requirement. The stats collector socket is bound >> to itself, so it's inaccessible from anywhere else (on machine or off) >> regardless of firewall settings. There's no need to worry about it, >> and no there is not a provision for doing it via unix socket instead. >> > > Indeed it is a totally harmless thing and the request makes little (if > any) sense. I will pass the answer over and I do share your stance > regarding excess in paranoid modes :) > > Can you create a virtual network interface, assign an address to it and have PostgreSQL listen to it in addition to the socket? I'm thinking not the eth0:X type but potentially what VirtualBox (vboxnet0), VMware (vmnet0) or other virtualization products do using brctl. Greg
