Re: FW: Configuring Postgres to use unix sockets - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: FW: Configuring Postgres to use unix sockets
Date
Msg-id 10592.1126277603@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: FW: Configuring Postgres to use unix sockets  (Douglas McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>)
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Douglas McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org> writes:
> You could also enforce use of the
> private network (in both cases) by use of firewall rules.

I think the real point here is that any additional security you gain
comes from having the physically separate wire.  It's foolish to suppose
that using a nonstandard protocol over that wire is going to buy
anything.  So there's no point in going through a lot of pushups to
substitute something else for TCP/IP.

            regards, tom lane

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