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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Windows default to localhost is in the wrong place
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Msg-id 2436.1104263829@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Windows default to localhost is in the wrong place  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> ISTM that libpq itself ought to default to localhost, rather than
>> failing, on machines that don't have Unix sockets.

> So then it would be picked up by pg_dump, createdb etc., plus third 
> party clients? Not a bad idea. Are you going to fix it for 8.0?

If I don't hear any objections in the next few hours ...
        regards, tom lane

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