Re: Re: [PATCHES] PostgreSQL virtual hosting support

> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > I am tempted to apply this. This is the second person who asked for
> > binding to a single port. The patch looks quite complete, with doc
> > changes. It appears to be a thorough job.
>
> Postmaster options are evil, please put something in backend/utils/guc.c.
> (This is not the fault of the patch submitter, since this interface is new
> for 7.1, but that still doesn't mean we should subvert it.)

I have put code in guc.c to handle this, but there still are postmaster
options for it too.

>
> > > 2. The ability to place the Unix-domain socket in a mode 700 directory.
>
> This would be a rather sharp instrument to offer to the world at large,
> because the socket file is also a lock file, so you can't just get rid of
> it.
>
> If we were to offer that anyway, I'd opine that we reuse the -h option
> (e.g., leading slash means Unix socket) rather than adding a -k option
> everywhere.

Interesting idea, thought kind of cryptic.

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