PostgreSQL typically uses port 5432 for client-server communications.
It would be a good idea to register this with IANA.  This will help to
avoid a clash with other services that might try to use the port.
DB2, Interbase, MS SQL, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, etc. are already
registered.

Might someone with a reasonable grasp of the low level messages in
PostgreSQL care to submit a registration?

    http://www.iana.org/
    http://www.iana.org/cgi-bin/usr-port-number.pl
    http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/port-numbers

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Mon, 26 Mar 2001 15:58:53 +0100
Pete Forman <pete.forman@westerngeco.com>
IANA registration
Pete Forman <pete.forman@westerngeco.com> writes:
> PostgreSQL typically uses port 5432 for client-server communications.
> It would be a good idea to register this with IANA.  This will help to
> avoid a clash with other services that might try to use the port.
> Might someone with a reasonable grasp of the low level messages in
> PostgreSQL care to submit a registration?

>     http://www.iana.org/
>     http://www.iana.org/cgi-bin/usr-port-number.pl
>     http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/port-numbers

This seems like a good idea.  They seem to want a particular person's
name as contact, so I suppose one of the core group should do it.
Has anyone already initiated the process; if not, shall I?

			regards, tom lane

Tue, 27 Mar 2001 15:33:57 -0500
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Re: IANA registration 
> Pete Forman <pete.forman@westerngeco.com> writes:
> > PostgreSQL typically uses port 5432 for client-server communications.
> > It would be a good idea to register this with IANA.  This will help to
> > avoid a clash with other services that might try to use the port.
> > Might someone with a reasonable grasp of the low level messages in
> > PostgreSQL care to submit a registration?
> 
> >     http://www.iana.org/
> >     http://www.iana.org/cgi-bin/usr-port-number.pl
> >     http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/port-numbers
> 
> This seems like a good idea.  They seem to want a particular person's
> name as contact, so I suppose one of the core group should do it.
> Has anyone already initiated the process; if not, shall I?

This seemed like a Marc job to me.  Marc?

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Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:33:17 -0500 (EST)
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Re: IANA registration
> > > PostgreSQL typically uses port 5432 for client-server communications.
> > > It would be a good idea to register this with IANA.  This will help to
> > > avoid a clash with other services that might try to use the port.
> > > Might someone with a reasonable grasp of the low level messages in
> > > PostgreSQL care to submit a registration?
> >
> > >     http://www.iana.org/
> > >     http://www.iana.org/cgi-bin/usr-port-number.pl
> > >     http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/port-numbers
> >
> > This seems like a good idea.  They seem to want a particular person's
> > name as contact, so I suppose one of the core group should do it.
> > Has anyone already initiated the process; if not, shall I?
> 
> This seemed like a Marc job to me.  Marc?

They ask for some (high level) details on the protocol features/packet
format. If Tom (or someone; could be me but I've been swamped) could
help out with a few sentences, we'll get this done a bit faster ;)

Presumably for port 5432 it is just the connection handshake stuff...

                    - Thomas

Tue, 27 Mar 2001 23:17:28 +0000
Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
Re: IANA registration
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > Pete Forman <pete.forman@westerngeco.com> writes:
> > > PostgreSQL typically uses port 5432 for client-server communications.
> > > It would be a good idea to register this with IANA.  This will help to
> > > avoid a clash with other services that might try to use the port.
> > > Might someone with a reasonable grasp of the low level messages in
> > > PostgreSQL care to submit a registration?
> >
> > >     http://www.iana.org/
> > >     http://www.iana.org/cgi-bin/usr-port-number.pl
> > >     http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/port-numbers
> >
> > This seems like a good idea.  They seem to want a particular person's
> > name as contact, so I suppose one of the core group should do it.
> > Has anyone already initiated the process; if not, shall I?
>
> This seemed like a Marc job to me.  Marc?

Will do ... *nod*



Tue, 27 Mar 2001 20:07:59 -0400 (AST)
The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Re: IANA registration
The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
>> This seemed like a Marc job to me.  Marc?

> Will do ... *nod*

Ok, fine here.  BTW, I was thinking that rather than filling in their
webform in any detail, it'd make the most sense to just supply a link
to our protocol documentation, presently

http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.0/postgres/protocol.htm
or
http://www.postgresql.org/devel-corner/docs/postgres/protocol.html

Even though the latter is nominally unstable docs, the URL doesn't
have built-in obsolescence in it ;-)

Maybe we should arrange for a more stable path to the "current release"
docs, ie a symlink without a version number?

			regards, tom lane

Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:13:22 -0500
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Re: IANA registration 
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> Ok, fine here.  BTW, I was thinking that rather than filling in their
> webform in any detail, it'd make the most sense to just supply a link
> to our protocol documentation, presently
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.0/postgres/protocol.htm
> or
> http://www.postgresql.org/devel-corner/docs/postgres/protocol.html
>
> Even though the latter is nominally unstable docs, the URL doesn't
> have built-in obsolescence in it ;-)

If it's in the devel-corner it does!

> Maybe we should arrange for a more stable path to the "current release"
> docs, ie a symlink without a version number?

But there is...

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/special/protocol.html

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Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:35:27 -0500 (EST)
Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>
Re: IANA registration 
Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com> writes:
>> Maybe we should arrange for a more stable path to the "current release"
>> docs, ie a symlink without a version number?

> But there is...

> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/special/protocol.html

No, that's just the first page of that chapter.  If the 'next' link
worked ...

			regards, tom lane

Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:38:47 -0500
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Re: IANA registration 
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com> writes:
> >> Maybe we should arrange for a more stable path to the "current release"
> >> docs, ie a symlink without a version number?
>
> > But there is...
>
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/special/protocol.html
>
> No, that's just the first page of that chapter.  If the 'next' link
> worked ...

It's what you provided:

http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.0/postgres/protocol.htm

But it's been changed.

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Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:45:01 -0500 (EST)
Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>
Re: IANA registration 

Did we get anywhere with this?

> PostgreSQL typically uses port 5432 for client-server communications.
> It would be a good idea to register this with IANA.  This will help to
> avoid a clash with other services that might try to use the port.
> DB2, Interbase, MS SQL, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, etc. are already
> registered.
> 
> Might someone with a reasonable grasp of the low level messages in
> PostgreSQL care to submit a registration?
> 
>     http://www.iana.org/
>     http://www.iana.org/cgi-bin/usr-port-number.pl
>     http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/port-numbers
> 
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> WesternGeco                   -./\.-  by myself and does not represent
> pete.forman@westerngeco.com     -./\.-  opinion of Schlumberger, Baker
> http://www.crosswinds.net/~petef  -./\.-  Hughes or their divisions.
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Fri, 4 May 2001 18:23:22 -0400 (EDT)
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Re: IANA registration
Bruce Momjian writes:
 > Did we get anywhere with this?

Marc said on 2001-03-27 that he was going to make the submission.

The port assignments listing published by IANA was last updated on
2001-05-03 and does not yet have an entry for 5432.
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Tue, 8 May 2001 09:03:34 +0100
Pete Forman <pete.forman@westerngeco.com>
Re: IANA registration