Isn't this fix in the wrong place?
2004-03-23 22:10 momjian
* src/bin/psql/startup.c: >>Also, what is the default connection
mode of psql? It should probably be
>>equivalent to "-h localhost", shouldn't it?
>>
>>
>
>Now that is something I had not thought of. Seems we can assume a
Win32
>psql can never use unix domain sockets, so defaulting that to
localhost
>is a good solution too.
Andrew Dunstan
ISTM that libpq itself ought to default to localhost, rather than
failing, on machines that don't have Unix sockets.
regards, tom lane