Re: enabling tcpip_socket by default

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Marko Karppinen <marko(at)karppinen(dot)fi>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: enabling tcpip_socket by default
Date: 2004-05-17 07:50:56
Message-ID: 200405170950.56563.peter_e@gmx.net
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Marko Karppinen wrote:
> If the default will be to listen on all interfaces, not just
> 127.0.0.1, then this IS a security risk. And if that's not the plan,
> what good does this change do? Any "real" use of tcp would still
> require a
> configuration
> change anyway.

Some interfaces, most notably JDBC, require the use of TCP/IP but will
often be perfectly happy with a locally bound socket only.

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