Re: Statistics collector port / unix dom. socket?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Sabaini <peter(dot)sabaini(at)ait(dot)ac(dot)at>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Statistics collector port / unix dom. socket?
Date: 2010-05-04 20:09:12
Message-ID: 19082.1273003752@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Sabaini <peter(dot)sabaini(at)ait(dot)ac(dot)at> writes:
> On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 11:39 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> 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.

Since the stats collector uses pre-bound UDP sockets, it should not be
possible for any interference to occur. If anything other than other
processes in the same PG herd is able to send a message on that socket,
it would be a kernel bug.

regards, tom lane

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