> On Aug 11, 2022, at 8:38 AM, richard coleman <rcoleman.ascentgl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > If you read the entire line you quoted, I was trying to confirm that intrinsic features and utilities, including pg_dump, don't use any **other** network ports Right. "Standard" utilities don't. pg_dump, pg_basebackup, fdw, etc all connect to PG as clients--which means they connect to 5432, from whatever random port the OS assigns to that connection.
