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Learning PostgreSQL 11 - Third Edition
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Learning PostgreSQL 11 - Third Edition

by Christopher Travers, Andrey Volkov
January 2019
Beginner
556 pages
14h 19m
English
Packt Publishing
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Listen addresses

The listen_addresses option is defined in postgresql.conf. The PostgreSQL listen_addresses connection setting is used to identify the list of IP addresses that the server should listen to from client applications. The listen_addresses are comma-separated lists of hostnames or IP addresses. Changing this value requires a server restart. In addition, the following should be noted:

  • The default value is localhost which restricts direct connections to PostgreSQL cluster from network..
  • Giving an empty list means that the server should accept only a Unix socket connection
  • The value * indicates all
It is a common mistake for developers new to PostgreSQL to forget to change the listen_address. If a developer forgets to change it, ...
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ISBN: 9781789535464