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authorNoah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>2014-03-29 00:52:31 -0400
committerNoah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>2014-03-29 01:02:51 -0400
commitc1932ec9e864d475b1debbcf26ba77c88dc163d0 (patch)
tree376df89a9d1d962c6b8509be840ead4f6a4baead
parent952f0153f3d69927947f8bdcba5d451a2b20e443 (diff)
Document platform-specificity of unix_socket_permissions.
Back-patch to 8.4 (all supported versions).
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/config.sgml6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
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>