Re: [ADMIN] Statistics collector port / unix dom. socket?

2010-05-05 Thread Peter Sabaini
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 14:04 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Peter Sabaini wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 11:39 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > >> Peter Sabaini writes: > >> > it seems Postgres tries to send a UDP packet to a random high port to > >> > communicate with the

Re: [ADMIN] Statistics collector port / unix dom. socket?

2010-05-04 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Sabaini writes: > On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 11:39 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> I'd suggest backing off your ideas about how much filtering is >> appropriate for local connections. > Since we're running multiple database instances with different projects > on one machine I'd like to isolate them as

Re: [ADMIN] Statistics collector port / unix dom. socket?

2010-05-04 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Peter Sabaini wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 11:39 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> Peter Sabaini writes: >> > it seems Postgres tries to send a UDP packet to a random high port to >> > communicate with the statistics collector daemon. We have rather strict >> > packet fi

Re: [ADMIN] Statistics collector port / unix dom. socket?

2010-05-04 Thread Peter Sabaini
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 11:39 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Sabaini writes: > > it seems Postgres tries to send a UDP packet to a random high port to > > communicate with the statistics collector daemon. We have rather strict > > packet filter rules in place, and I'd like to make the system use a >

Re: [ADMIN] Statistics collector port / unix dom. socket?

2010-05-04 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Sabaini writes: > it seems Postgres tries to send a UDP packet to a random high port to > communicate with the statistics collector daemon. We have rather strict > packet filter rules in place, and I'd like to make the system use a > fixed port for this, or even better a Unix domain socket.

[ADMIN] Statistics collector port / unix dom. socket?

2010-05-04 Thread Peter Sabaini
Hello, it seems Postgres tries to send a UDP packet to a random high port to communicate with the statistics collector daemon. We have rather strict packet filter rules in place, and I'd like to make the system use a fixed port for this, or even better a Unix domain socket. Is this possible (sett