From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
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To: | Matthew Pettis <matthew(dot)pettis(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Fwd: Restarting with pg_ctl, users, and passwords. |
Date: | 2008-08-20 20:16:21 |
Message-ID: | 20080820201621.GA13687@svana.org |
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On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 01:58:37PM -0500, Matthew Pettis wrote:
> Curious: Any ideas why I can leave the host off my connection string
> in WinXP, but not Linux? It it an idiosyncracy of my app, or of
> PostgreSQL?
No host specified on a UNIX system means "unix domain socket" which is
essentially a way of doing a socket connection on the local machine.
You can acheive the same effect by host=/path/to/socket.
Leaving off the host in windows I'm not sure what it does.
Have a ncie day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Please line up in a tree and maintain the heap invariant while
> boarding. Thank you for flying nlogn airlines.
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