On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 11:39 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Sabaini <peter.sabaini@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > it seems Postgres tries to send a UDP packet to a random high port to > > communicate with the statistics collector daemon. We have rather strict > > packet filter rules in place, and I'd like to make the system use a > > fixed port for this, or even better a Unix domain socket. Is this > > possible (setting a compile time or run time parameter)? > > No, the stats collector just uses whatever port bind() chooses for it. A pity. > 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. Thanks anyway... peter. > > regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
