On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> wrote: > This was probably discussed to death earlier, but: why was it decided to > not simply use a different port for listening for walsender > connections?
I believe that using a different port would make the setup of replication messier; look for the unused port number, open that port for replication in the firewall, etc. Regards, -- Fujii Masao NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION NTT Open Source Software Center -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers