On ons, 2011-06-15 at 13:35 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > I now believe we are overthinking all this. pg_upgrade has always > supported specification of a port number. Why not just tell users to > specify an unused port number > 1023, and not to use the default > value? Both old and new clusters will happily run on any specified > port number during the upgrade. This allows the lockout to work for > both old and new clusters, which is better than enhancing -b because > that will only be for > 9.1 servers.
On non-Windows servers you could get this even safer by disabling the TCP/IP socket altogether, and placing the Unix-domain socket in a private temporary directory. The "port" wouldn't actually matter then. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
