Peter Sabaini <peter(dot)sabaini(at)ait(dot)ac(dot)at> 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 best I can.
Since the stats collector uses pre-bound UDP sockets, it should not be
possible for any interference to occur. If anything other than other
processes in the same PG herd is able to send a message on that socket,
it would be a kernel bug.
regards, tom lane