Re: Statistics collector port / unix dom. socket? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Statistics collector port / unix dom. socket?
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Msg-id 19082.1273003752@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Statistics collector port / unix dom. socket?  (Peter Sabaini <peter.sabaini@ait.ac.at>)
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Peter Sabaini <peter.sabaini@ait.ac.at> writes:
> On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 11:39 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> 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.

Since the stats collector uses pre-bound UDP sockets, it should not be
possible for any interference to occur.  If anything other than other
processes in the same PG herd is able to send a message on that socket,
it would be a kernel bug.

            regards, tom lane

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