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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2004-03-05 23:16:17 +0000
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2004-03-05 23:16:17 +0000
commit96c229dd7acdc2040c0c3609e53abb88d7b4ce32 (patch)
treea2efeb8e6204f7db5195dc3f726f640770b5ec1e
parent3f01eba0bfad55b3ddea8d7e26348c921e566e3f (diff)
Improve documentation of virtual_host parameter: old text failed to
indicate that you could specify multiple listen addresses.
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
index 55e0f21b0b9..f64719bd78c 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v 1.243 2004/03/01 17:58:39 neilc Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v 1.244 2004/03/05 23:16:17 tgl Exp $
-->
<Chapter Id="runtime">
@@ -700,9 +700,11 @@ SET ENABLE_SEQSCAN TO OFF;
<term><varname>virtual_host</varname> (<type>string</type>)</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Specifies the host name or IP address on which the server is
- to listen for connections from client applications. The
- default is to listen on all configured addresses (including
+ Specifies the IP address(es) on which the server is
+ to listen for connections from client applications. If specified,
+ it takes the form of a space-separated list of host names and/or
+ numeric IP addresses. If the list is empty, the server listens
+ on all available addresses (including
<systemitem class="systemname">localhost</>).
</para>
</listitem>