Re: Getting rid of "accept incoming network connections" prompts on OS X

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On 10/21/14 1:16 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> If you do any Postgres development on OS X, you've probably gotten
>> seriously annoyed by the way that, every single time you reinstall the
>> postmaster executable, you get a dialog box asking whether you'd like
>> to allow it to accept incoming network connections.
>
> I used to, but somehow I don't see this anymore. Just to be sure, I
> made sure the firewall is on, checked that postgres is not in the
> exception list, rebooted, built postgresql from scratch, ran make check,
> but no pop-up.
>
> I'm on Yosemite. Maybe this was changed.

I've never seen it on any version of OS X (I've worked my way from
Panther to Yosemite). There must be more to it...

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