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

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Robert Young <yayooo(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com, GavinFlower <gavinflower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz>, Pg Bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Add statistics_collector_listen_addresses to fix hard-coding of "localhost"
Date: 2011-10-28 16:03:46
Message-ID: 4EAAD262.1010309@enterprisedb.com
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On 28.10.2011 18:40, Robert Young wrote:
> Which wrong?
> 1.I got no money to buy a good machine to run both the services and database.
> 2.I got no money to buy a good machine to run both the services and
> client applications.
> 3.Client applications hard-coding "localhost".
> 4.PG hard-coding "localhost".

#3. Fix the applications to not hard-code "localhost". The difference
between #3 and #4 is that PostgreSQL really genuinely always does mean
to connect to the local host, while #3 actually wants to connect to some
other host, but it was not made configurable.

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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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