On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 01:58:37PM -0500, Matthew Pettis wrote:
> Curious: Any ideas why I can leave the host off my connection string
> in WinXP, but not Linux? It it an idiosyncracy of my app, or of
> PostgreSQL?
No host specified on a UNIX system means "unix domain socket" which is
essentially a way of doing a socket connection on the local machine.
You can acheive the same effect by host=/path/to/socket.
Leaving off the host in windows I'm not sure what it does.
Have a ncie day,
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