Re: [HACKERS] Another crack at doing a Win32 build

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Another crack at doing a Win32 build
Date: 2004-03-05 15:31:03
Message-ID: 200403051531.i25FV3612093@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net> writes:
> > Are there any other platforms which don't have unix sockets?
>
> There are a couple, although I think those ports may be moribund
> (if anyone still cares about BeOS, they haven't mentioned it lately).
>
> > Perhaps we should force it to open a tcp socket on 127.0.0.1 only? That
> > way we don't suddenly open up to external connections without the user
> > asking for it.
>
> That seems like a reasonable compromise.

Agreed, but how do we do that. pg_hba.conf already only listens on
127.0.0.1. Do we ignore non-local IPs in that file until they use -i?

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