On 11/20/2016 11:35 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Greg Stark<stark@mit.edu> writes:
>> >On Nov 20, 2016 6:57 PM, "John R Pierce"<pierce@hogranch.com> wrote:
>>> >>wait, what?? postgres can't function at all without basic networking
>>> >>support, including at least named pipes and tcp over localhost.
>> >I think you mean the named UNIX domain socket in /tmp. Technically not the
>> >same thing as named pipes.
err, yeah, thats what I meant, all right. typing on my first cup of
coffee, hah!
> Right, we would need either UNIX-domain or TCP sockets for server
> connections to work at all.
>
>> >I don't think we require tcp whether loopback or not.
> We require UDP packet loopback to work for the stats collector to work.
> If it weren't working, certain regression tests would probably fail,
> and definitely the "stats" test would fail. Richard's last message
> shows that as having passed.
ahh, yeah, I knew there was something like that, I just couldn't
remember what. I'm vaguely remembering someone on this list a year
or so ago who was upset that localhost was hard coded to 127.0.0.1
because he was trying to do something weirdly 'clever' with it.
--
john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
