Re: [COMMITTERS] pg-migrator - src: Add support for specifying port numbers.

Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> >> User Bmomjian wrote:
> >>> Log Message:
> >>> -----------
> >>> Add support for specifying port numbers.
> >> Hmm, I suppose we can't readily run pg_dump against a stand-alone backend?
> >
> > I am confused by the question; we used to default to the 5432 port
> > numbers.
>
> I was thinking that we could sidestep the whole port number question if
> we didn't try to start up postmaster, and used a stand-alone backend (
> postgres --single) instead.

Libpq can't connect to a stand-alone backend and we have many libpq
queries.

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