"Avishay Orpaz" <avishorp@walla.co.il> writes:
> I'm trying to run psql on Windows 2000, but it prints an error message
> saying:
> psql: could not create socket: An address incompatible with the requested
> protocol was used.
> (0x0000273F)
> Debugging a small application I have written myself, I have discovered that
> the function 'socket' inside the database connection function fails with the
> error: "The specified address family is not supported".
Try "psql -h localhost" (or set PGHOST environment variable). I don't
think Unix-socket connections exist in Windows.
regards, tom lane
