Currently they are started in unix socket mode in ost cases, and then converted to run in TCP mode. This can result in port collisions, and there is no virtue in startng in unix socket mode, so start as we will be going on. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d6ee8761-39d1-0033-1afb-d5a57ee056f2@gmail.com Backpatch to all live branches (12 and up).
PostgreSQL Database Management System
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
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