Re: Re: UUNET socket-file-location patch

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Re: UUNET socket-file-location patch
Date: 2000-11-14 17:45:36
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.21.0011141844400.1116-100000@peter.localdomain
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Tom Lane writes:

> We should revert all the client-side changes from this patch, and
> instead teach libpq and the other interfaces to treat a host name
> that starts with a slash as being a path to a socket file (replacing
> the default assumption of "/tmp"). Much cleaner, especially for
> existing client apps.

Should the parameter determine the directory or the full file name? I'd
go for the former, but it's not a strong case.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://yi.org/peter-e/

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