Re: Getting rid of "accept incoming network connections" prompts on OS X

Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Peter, Dave: maybe you have tweaked things to keep listen_addresses
>> empty and rely only on Unix-socket connections?

> Should be so. The target of this feature is development on OSX, right?
> And most of the time development would be done only on the local
> machine, machine being most of the time a laptop. So instead of adding
> an optional step in configure to enforce the creation of a
> certificate, why not simply encourage people to use listen_addresses =
> '' on OSX by documenting it? Even when working on replication or
> related things on a local machine, it is possible to simply pass the
> socket directory...

Some clients (eg JDBC) don't support Unix-socket connections AFAIK, so
this seems like a rather restricted solution.
        regards, tom lane