Re: Document that server will start even if it's unable to open some TCP/IP ports

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

To: Gurjeet Singh <gurjeet@singh.im>

Cc: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, Postgres Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2023-09-07T19:33:57Z

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listen.diff (text/x-diff) patch

On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 11:57:45PM -0700, Gurjeet Singh wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 10:59 PM Nathan Bossart
> <nathandbossart@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, May 27, 2023 at 03:17:21PM -0700, Gurjeet Singh wrote:
> > > If listen_addresses is empty, then server won't try to open any TCP/IP
> > > ports. The patch does not change any language related to that.
> >
> > Your proposed change notes that the server only starts if it can listen on
> > at least one TCP/IP address, which I worry might lead folks to think that
> > the server won't start if listen_addresses is empty.
> 
> Perhaps we can prefix that statement with "If listen_addresses is not
> empty", like so:

I came up with a slightly modified doc patch, attached.

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