Re: Security question UNIX Sockets vs CIDR style access

kevink(at)consistentstate(dot)com (Kevin Kempter) writes:
> I'm looking for thoughts/feedback on the use of UNIX Sockets vs standard CIDR style access (i,e, Ident, MD5, etc) to a Postgres Cluster. What are the
> pros/cons, which is more secure and why, etc...

There is no single answer, which is essentially why there is the whole
array of access methods.

Each has reasons to be preferable under particular circumstances, and
there is a fair bit of documentation on this in the standard
documentation.

Please see:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/auth-methods.html
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