Re: Add statistics_collector_listen_addresses to fix hard-coding of "localhost"

From: Torsten Zuehlsdorff <foo(at)meisterderspiele(dot)de>
To: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Add statistics_collector_listen_addresses to fix hard-coding of "localhost"
Date: 2011-11-10 07:46:52
Message-ID: 4EBB816C.2050402@meisterderspiele.de
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Heikki Linnakangas schrieb:
> On 10.11.2011 07:09, Robert Young wrote:
>> 2.If the underling lack of hostname or DNS facility, Anyway, PG should
>> be founctional without it.
>
> It is. It's just the stats collector that won't work, and autovacuum
> which depends on a working stats collector. Otherwise the system is
> functional.

But it will get broken! Without the autovacuum (and a manual vacuum) a
PG installation could run into loss of (very) old data, because of the
transaction ID wraparound.

Lossing data is very bad, the solution provided by Robert is really
simple. I support Roberts approach.

Greetings from Germany,
Torsten
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