Re: BUG #15300: "do you want the application "postgres" to accept incoming network connections" dialog box madness

concur with all

Just FYI for those keeping track - so far no dialog boxes have popped up
since I removed that text line.
Seems to be success and a simple fix too :)

FYI - this machine was originally a 10.8.5 machine - I mirrored the system
drive to an external so I could still boot 10.8.5 - then I installed the
latest Os
- so the line above from Thomas "but if you upgraded a 4+ year old system
that started out on 10.9 or earlier you may still have it." seems to be a
very accurate call.

@ Tom Lane - thank you for pointing me in the right direction!!!!!!!!

to paraphrase Douglas Adams - "I was about to reprogram my Mac Mini with a
very large axe..."

I think my Mac and I are both very glad it did not come to that. : )

thanks gang!
mischief managed
jd

On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 1:51 AM, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com
> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 6:40 PM, Thomas Munro
> <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 12:42 PM, Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com>
> wrote:
> >>> On Jul 26, 2018, at 16:48, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >>> I still have no idea *why* the fe80::1%lo0 line is in there, or whether
> >>> there's any downside to taking it out. File dates on my own Macs
> suggest
> >>> that maybe Apple shipped some OSX versions years ago that had it in
> there
> >>> by default, and that newer versions don't have it, but system upgrades
> >>> don't replace the file if it's already present.
> >>
> >> That seems to be correct. I'm on Sierra on a system that's been
> upgraded and System Migrated since 10.4, and have never installed Unreal
> Engine, and it's present in my /etc/hosts file.
> >
> > I'm on a High Sierra (10.13) laptop that originally came with Yosemite
> > (10.10, current from October 2014 to September 2015), and it doesn't
> > have that entry in /etc/hosts.
>
> ... and based on various random reports found via Google, it looks
> like Mavericks (10.9) probably did have that entry. So I suspect that
> Yosemite (10.10) was the first not to include it, but if you upgraded
> a 4+ year old system that started out on 10.9 or earlier you may still
> have it.
>
> --
> Thomas Munro
> http://www.enterprisedb.com
>