The PostgreSQL server opens a TCP/IP port even if I tell it not to. postmaster is not being called with -i and I comment out the TCP/IP stuff in postgresql.conf. Still opens the port. My workaround: Try to get it to bind a reserved port. Since postgres doesn't run as root, it can't, it throws an error but continues and the UNIX domain socket support works fine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install PostgreSQL 2. Start it up, try to turn off TCP/IP support 3. netstat -at, it is listening on a port Actual Results: PostgreSQL was listening on a TCP socket Expected Results: Not opened any TCP socket. Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3-20050110, glibc-2.3.5- r0, 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 i686 Pentium II (Deschutes) Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.8 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O9 -march=pentium2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-guess-branch-probability - fsignaling-nans -mieee-fp" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share /config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/shar e/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O9 -march=pentium2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-guess-branch-probability -fsignaling-nans -mieee-fp" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gento o" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X Xaw3d acpi alsa apache2 apm arts avi bash-completion bcmath berkdb bi tmap-fonts bmp bzlib cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl emacs emacs-w3 emboss encode examples fam fastcgi fbcon foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif glut gpm gtk gtk2 ima gemagick imlib ipv6 jpeg kde lcms libg++ libwww lmsensors mad matrox mikmod mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nocd offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png pos tgres python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl svga sysvipc tcltk tcpd tidy ti ff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb vorbis wddx x-face xml2 xmms xv yahoo zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
The problem ALSO happens if I unmask 8.0.3. I reported the bug against 8.0.2. The bug is definitely in both versions.
reading $PGDATA/postgresql.conf it says the following: #listen_addresses = 'localhost' # what IP interface(s) to listen on; # defaults to localhost, '*' = any simply set listen_addresses = '' and the problem goes away because it no longer uses the default. hope that helps. IMO That setting should be changed, listening on localhost is not a good default setting.
Not a bug, as said in Comment #2.
