Re: IANA registration

Pete Forman <pete(dot)forman(at)westerngeco(dot)com> writes:
> PostgreSQL typically uses port 5432 for client-server communications.
> It would be a good idea to register this with IANA. This will help to
> avoid a clash with other services that might try to use the port.
> Might someone with a reasonable grasp of the low level messages in
> PostgreSQL care to submit a registration?

> http://www.iana.org/
> http://www.iana.org/cgi-bin/usr-port-number.pl
> http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/port-numbers

This seems like a good idea. They seem to want a particular person's
name as contact, so I suppose one of the core group should do it.
Has anyone already initiated the process; if not, shall I?

regards, tom lane