Re: Getting rid of "accept incoming network connections" prompts on OS X - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: Getting rid of "accept incoming network connections" prompts on OS X
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Msg-id CAB7nPqST5w=PX9N-sQ=WjOz76Go1CEJtbuumaF3Q2Jy1eWJEBQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Getting rid of "accept incoming network connections" prompts on OS X  (Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>)
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On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> On 10/21/14 1:16 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> If you do any Postgres development on OS X, you've probably gotten
>> seriously annoyed by the way that, every single time you reinstall the
>> postmaster executable, you get a dialog box asking whether you'd like
>> to allow it to accept incoming network connections.
>
> I used to, but somehow I don't see this anymore.  Just to be sure, I
> made sure the firewall is on, checked that postgres is not in the
> exception list, rebooted, built postgresql from scratch, ran make check,
> but no pop-up.
>
> I'm on Yosemite.  Maybe this was changed.

I've never seen it on any version of OS X (I've worked my way from
Panther to Yosemite). There must be more to it...
FWIW, with firewall at on, I am used to see this annoying popup window when starting an instance manually, make check never complains though.
--
Michael

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