Tom Lane wrote: > Michael Glaesemann <grzm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> On Apr 30, 2007, at 16:39 , Tom Lane wrote: >>> Yeah, Apple uses Postgres as a part of Remote Desktop, but I don't >>> think >>> they intend it for general use --- it deliberately uses a nonstandard >>> port to avoid conflicting with a regular PG server. > >> Really? I've had the Remote Desktop postgres instance prevent others >> from starting on the default port. Matter of fact, I see that it >> started up on 5432 just right now. I wonder if the Remote Desktop >> doesn't check if something else is running on 5432 on startup and use >> another port if it's already in use. Note that I don't think the >> Remote Desktop postgres instance starts on system startup; from >> observation it looks like Remote Desktop needs to be launched for its >> postgres server to start. > > Hmm ... the default port wired into the executables definitely seems to > be 5433: Not being a Mac user myself, I do seem to recall having read somewhere that they changed this at some point. That early versions had it in 5432, but it was changed to 5433 in newer ones. //Magnus
