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In earlier versions of PostgreSQL, access through the network was enabled by adding the -i command line switch when you started the server. This is still a valid option, but now it means the following:

listen_addresses = '*'

So, if you're reading some notes about how to set things up and this is mentioned, be warned that those notes are probably long out of date. They are not necessarily wrong, but it's worth looking further to see whether anything else has changed.