Re: client interfaces

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: David Parker <dparker(at)tazznetworks(dot)com>
Cc: postgres general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: client interfaces
Date: 2005-04-12 20:10:29
Message-ID: 20050412201029.GA29388@wolff.to
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On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:51:09 -0400,
David Parker <dparker(at)tazznetworks(dot)com> wrote:
> Is there anything like a client library for postgres that does not use
> tcp/ip as the protocol? As part of the performance tuning of our
> application, the question was posed to me whether there was a more
> "direct" sort of API that would not require going through the tcp/ip
> stack. I assume the answer to this is "no", and I see no hint of
> anything in the source code, but I thought I would ask the question,
> just to be sure.

You can use domain sockets when on the same host as the server.

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