Gilberto Castillo Martínez wrote: > > > El jue, 10-03-2011 a las 15:33 -0500, Bruce Momjian escribi?: > > Dyonisius Visser wrote: > > > On 10 March 2011 21:03, Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > OK, let's skip documenting this then. ?They can already do this via > > > > pg_hba.conf. > > > > > > Restricting access via pg_hba.conf is something else than listening > > > (or not) on sockets... > > > > > > FYI, the listen_addresses is basically the same as sshd's ListenAddress. > > > > Yes, listen_addresses prevents anyone from even binding to the address. > > I keep thinking you should put that information somewhere accessible > comun. Attached doc patch applied. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. +
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml index 8e27f73..0c682c8 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml @@ -324,7 +324,9 @@ SET ENABLE_SEQSCAN TO OFF; to listen for connections from client applications. The value takes the form of a comma-separated list of host names and/or numeric IP addresses. The special entry <literal>*</> - corresponds to all available IP interfaces. + corresponds to all available IP interfaces. The entry + <literal>0.0.0.0</> allows listening for all IPv4 addresses and + <literal>::</> allows listening for all IPv6 addresses. If the list is empty, the server does not listen on any IP interface at all, in which case only Unix-domain sockets can be used to connect to it.
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