Lange Marcus wrote: > I would like to be able to restrict the access to a database so that > only a specific program running on the same machine can access it, In postgresql.conf, set unix_socket_permissions = 770 unix_socket_group = postgres and make your program setgid postgres. Or some variant of this involving those parameters. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings