Re: enabling tcpip_socket by default - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Marko Karppinen wrote:
> If the default will be to listen on all interfaces, not just
> 127.0.0.1, then this IS a security risk. And if that's not the plan,
> what good does this change do? Any "real" use of tcp would still
> require a
> configuration
> change anyway.

Some interfaces, most notably JDBC, require the use of TCP/IP but will 
often be perfectly happy with a locally bound socket only.