Re: location of Unix socket

> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Am I handling this properly? I hate to be dragging around the unix
> > socket directory name in pghost for too long and hate to be propogating
> > the slash test throughout the code.
>
> It's probably cleanest to do that the way you are doing it. However,
> one could argue we should make PQhost() return
> pghost ? pghost : pgunixsocket
> which'd make the external behavior compatible with the way one specifies
> the connection.
>
> Basically, the idea was to *not* have a distinct unixsocket spec
> anywhere in libpq's external API, so that existing apps wouldn't need
> a rewrite to support this feature. Keeping unixsocket separate inside
> the library is a good idea, but it's independent of the API.

Done. New code:

return conn->pghost ? conn->pghost : conn->pgunixsocket;

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