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

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Getting rid of "accept incoming network connections" prompts on OS X
Date: 2014-10-23 00:32:10
Message-ID: CA+TgmobayFXfmu9tvS+q6fUe0eon=nQm1DMwxAkYtbcA9+bwtQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> 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. (At least, you
> do unless you disable the OS firewall, which is not a great idea.)
> It's particularly awful to run "make check-world" in this environment,
> because you get a pop-up for each test install.

Ugh. This must be new in Mavericks, because I don't get any such
behavior on 10.8.5.

What an awful, awful behavior.

--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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