How to configure postgresql postgresql.conf listen_addresses for multiple ip addresses

listen_addresses controls which IPs the server will answer on, not which IPs the server will permit connections to authenticate from. It's entirely reasonable and normal to use listen_addresses '*' so the server will accept incoming connections on any ip assigned to an interface on the postgresql server host, while using pg_hba.conf to control access at a finer grained level for which IPs the server will accept logins from for specific databases and users.


Setting listen_addresses to '*' is normal, as dbenhur points out. Also you can use tools such as iptables to deny access to the port apart from certain remote IPs. You can even do both: redundancy in security is not necessarily a bad thing (although, relying on IP address security isn't so good).

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