From: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 04:52:31 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Document platform-specificity of unix_socket_permissions.
X-Git-Tag: REL9_2_9~102
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c1932ec9e864d475b1debbcf26ba77c88dc163d0;p=thirdparty%2Fpostgresql.git

Document platform-specificity of unix_socket_permissions.

Back-patch to 8.4 (all supported versions).
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
index d11fa29cef9..b45a4d8f308 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
@@ -543,7 +543,11 @@ SET ENABLE_SEQSCAN TO OFF;
        </para>
 
        <para>
-        This parameter is irrelevant on Windows, which does not have
+        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>