kevink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (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 -- let name="cbbrowne" and tld="linuxdatabases.info" in String.concat "@" [name;tld];; http://cbbrowne.com/info/sgml.html "Over a hundred years ago, the German poet Heine warned the French not to underestimate the power of ideas: philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor's study could destroy a civilization." --Isaiah Berlin in /The Power of Ideas/ -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
