On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 01:39:04AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Doesn't the stats collector use unix domain sockets, not IP?
>
> No. IIRC, we deliberately chose IP/UDP because it had buffering
> behavior we liked.
Once you said it was because not all platforms have unix domain
sockets. I asked why we weren't using something like
socketpair().
Kurt