Re: Statistics collector port / unix dom. socket?

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Peter Sabaini <peter(dot)sabaini(at)ait(dot)ac(dot)at> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 11:39 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Peter Sabaini <peter(dot)sabaini(at)ait(dot)ac(dot)at> writes:
>> > it seems Postgres tries to send a UDP packet to a random high port to
>> > communicate with the statistics collector daemon. We have rather strict
>> > packet filter rules in place, and I'd like to make the system use a
>> > fixed port for this, or even better a Unix domain socket. Is this
>> > possible (setting a compile time or run time parameter)?
>>
>> No, the stats collector just uses whatever port bind() chooses for it.
>
> A pity.
>
>> I'd suggest backing off your ideas about how much filtering is
>> appropriate for local connections.
>
> Since we're running multiple database instances with different projects
> on one machine I'd like to isolate them as best I can.

Maybe running them in individual VMs would do that.