Re: Streaming replication and postmaster signaling - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> This was probably discussed to death earlier, but: why was it decided to
> not simply use a different port for listening for walsender
> connections?

I believe that using a different port would make the setup
of replication messier; look for the unused port number,
open that port for replication in the firewall, etc.

Regards,

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Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
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