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Sets the owning group of the Unix-domain socket(s). (The owning user of the sockets is always the user that starts the server.) In combination with the parameter unix_socket_permissions this can be used as an additional access control mechanism for Unix-domain connections. By default this is the empty string, which uses the default group of the server user. This parameter can only be set at server start. This parameter is not supported on Windows. Any setting will be ignored. Also, sockets in the abstract namespace have no file owner, so this setting is also ignored in that case.

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boot val

Unknown

category

Connections and Authentication / Connection Settings

context

postmaster

documented

true

enumvals

Unknown

extra desc

The owning user of the socket is always the user that starts the server. An empty string means use the user's default group.

lang

en

max val

Unknown

metadata version

18

min val

Unknown

name

unix_socket_group

short desc

Sets the owning group of the Unix-domain socket.

source

pg-settings-source-snapshot

unit

Unknown

vartype

string