Re: Ability to listen on two unix sockets

On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 10:38:42AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Florian Pflug <fgp@phlo.org> writes:
> > Couldn't you simply tell postgres to put it's socket in, say, /var/run, and create a symlink to that socket in the
global/tmp directory?
 
> 
> FYI, this proposal emerged out of a discussion between Honza and
> myself.  "Use a symlink" was my first idea too, but on reflection
> it seems like it will take less new code to support two sockets.
> We already support multiple TCP sockets, so multiple Unix sockets ---------------------------------------
> shouldn't be that much extra trouble.

We do?  I didn't think listening on multiple interfaces meant we
listened on multiple sockets.  Is there something else?

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