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Responses Re: 127.0.0.1 or localhost  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Hi All, 

It's not actually a problem, it's a question. pgpass in my case, has two
lines, one with 127.0.0.1 and another with localhost

what would be the difference from one to another. ??

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