Re: issue with reading hostname

Can we edit the socket to change the hostname in it ?

Regards.

On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 2:41 AM Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 4:14 PM Atul Kumar <akumar14871(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have postgresql version 15 running on centos7.
>>
>> I have below query that reads hostname from /tmp directory:
>>
>> psql postgres -A -t -p 5432 -h /tmp/ -c 'SELECT pg_is_in_recovery();'
>>
>
> If you installed from the PGDG repository (possibly also the CENTOS repos,
> but I'm not sure), then the domain socket also lives in :
> /var/run/postgresql
>
> * I find that more expressive than /tmp.
> * No need to specify the host when using sockets.
> * Using a socket name makes parameterizing the hostname easier in scripts.
>
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