Hi,
Not sure if were just missing each others point?
On Thursday, April 05, 2012 05:20:04 PM Stephen Frost wrote:
> > Why would pipes be more useful? Its not like you could build useful
> > pipelines with them.
>
> The point is to avoid the risk that someone else could connect to the
> database at the same time you're doing work on it.
I got that. I just fail to see what the advantage of using two pipes instead
of one socket as every other plain connection would be?
Using named pipes solves that tidbit from Tom:
> Notions like private socket directories don't solve this because we don't
> have that option available on Windows.
If you have named pipes or AF_UNIX sockets you can solve that by either just
passing the fd to your child and not allowing any access to it (no problem on
either platform) or by using a private directory.
Andres
