Re: Stats Collector Error 7.4beta1 and 7.4beta2 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 01:39:04AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Doesn't the stats collector use unix domain sockets, not IP?
> 
> No.  IIRC, we deliberately chose IP/UDP because it had buffering
> behavior we liked.

Once you said it was because not all platforms have unix domain
sockets.  I asked why we weren't using something like
socketpair().


Kurt