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If we choose ports in the range typically used for ephemeral ports there is a danger of encountering a port conflict due to a race condition between the time we choose the port in a range below that typically used to allocate ephemeral ports, but higher than the range typically used by well known services. Author: Jelte Fenema-Nio, with some editing by me. 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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