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authorNoah Misch2014-03-29 04:52:31 +0000
committerNoah Misch2014-03-29 05:19:48 +0000
commit790709890854ca66083c06aaf1b362615b0a674a (patch)
treeea8b729b7d87ff8d3877b825da427edf0146100d
parent8f9f73d1e3b2aa9043c977f21c1f1f6081375083 (diff)
Document platform-specificity of unix_socket_permissions.
Back-patch to 8.4 (all supported versions).
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/config.sgml9
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
index 566d872b30d..1f82f3543d0 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
@@ -469,6 +469,15 @@ SET ENABLE_SEQSCAN TO OFF;
<para>
This parameter can only be set at server start.
</para>
+
+ <para>
+ This parameter is irrelevant on systems, notably Solaris as of Solaris
+ 10, that ignore socket permissions entirely. There, one can achieve a
+ similar effect by pointing <varname>unix_socket_directories</> to a
+ directory having search permission limited to the desired audience.
+ This parameter is also irrelevant on Windows, which does not have
+ Unix-domain sockets.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>