Re: Proxy Server ...

On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> > does anyone know of a proxy server that i can run on a server to "pretend"
> > its a postgresql server?  so that I can connect to IP:port and have it
> > establish a connection to IP:5432?
>
> [ scratches head ]  Why don't you just start the postmaster listening
> to the other port instead of 5432?  Seems like a proxy inside the jail
> wouldn't really do anything the postmaster itself wouldn't do.
>
> Possibly setting VIRTUAL_HOST would help too, if the problem is that
> the postmaster is trying to bind to addresses it's not allowed to.

Not possible to run a postmaster inside of the jail itself, which would
*really* simplify things :(