Re: Stats Collector Error 7.4beta1 and 7.4beta2

Kurt Roeckx wrote:

> It could be useful to have a warning at the following line:
>
> if (memcmp(&fromaddr, &pgStatAddr, fromlen))
> continue;
>
> That way you can rule out that that is a problem.
>
> Anyway, I still didn't see the error message he got in the first
> place. Maybe we're looking at the wrong thing?

I think it's more this piece of code in postmaster/pgstat.c

/*
* The source address of the packet must be our own socket.
* This ensures that only real hackers or our own backends
* tell us something. (This should be redundant with a
* kernel-level check due to having used connect(), but let's
* do it anyway.)
*/
if (memcmp(&fromaddr, &pgStatAddr, fromlen))
continue;

Jan

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