Excerpts from Alexey Klyukin's message of Thu Nov 24 10:22:21 +0200 2011:
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> Another idea is to use local:/dir/name for UNIX domain socket instead of hostname:port, like it's displayed in the psql prompt.
So the whole thing would look like this:
postgresql://local:/dir/name/dbname?param1=val1&...
Where "/dir/name" is the absolute path to the directory containing the socket file. If one wants to use the default directory the following syntax may serve the need:
postgresql://local:/dbname
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Alex