Re: Fwd: Bug#425125: postgresql-8.1: localhost does not work for unix sockets in ~/.pgpass - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

Martin Pitt <martin@piware.de> writes:
> I just got the bug report below from a Debian user. The comment on
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/libpq-pgpass.html
> confirms this, it describes the exact same problem.

This seems to be a repeat of
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-05/msg00295.php
which was fixed a year ago but only for 8.2 and later, since there
was some concern about the change being not backwards compatible.
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2006-05/msg00123.php

            regards, tom lane