Re: Multiple UNIX-domain sockets?

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

Oliver Fromme <olli(at)lurza(dot)secnetix(dot)de> writes:
> I need to run a postgresql server with multiple UNIX-domain
> sockets, i.e. not just the one in /tmp.  Is that possible
> at all?

No ... why would you need it?

(The postmaster could probably be made to do this if it was important,
but I don't see the use-case.)

> (I had the idea to create hardlinks to the socket in /tmp,
> but unfortunately /tmp is a separate file system on a
> memory disk, so it's not possible to create hardlinks to
> somewhere else.)

Wouldn't a symlink work?

			regards, tom lane