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.