Re: postgresql definitive list of network resources used/needed?

> On Aug 11, 2022, at 8:38 AM, richard coleman <rcoleman.ascentgl@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If you read the entire line you quoted, I was trying to confirm that intrinsic features and utilities, including
pg_dump,don't use any **other** network ports 

Right. "Standard" utilities don't. pg_dump, pg_basebackup, fdw, etc all connect to PG as clients--which means they
connectto 5432, from whatever random port the OS assigns to that connection.