default psql to localhost on platforms without unix domain sockets - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject default psql to localhost on platforms without unix domain sockets
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Msg-id 405588D2.3030608@dunslane.net
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Bruce Momjian wrote:

>Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>>Also, what is the default connection mode of psql? It should probably be
>>equivalent to "-h localhost", shouldn't it?
>>
>>
>
>Now that is something I had not thought of.  Seems we can assume a Win32
>psql can never use unix domain sockets, so defaulting that to localhost
>is a good solution too.
>

The trivial patch below does this (I think). I still don't have an
available Windows box for testing, so someone who does please verify.

thanks

andrew

Index: src/bin/psql/startup.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/bin/psql/startup.c,v
retrieving revision 1.85
diff -c -r1.85 startup.c
*** src/bin/psql/startup.c 19 Feb 2004 19:40:09 -0000 1.85
--- src/bin/psql/startup.c 15 Mar 2004 10:37:50 -0000
***************
*** 153,158 ****
--- 153,162 ----
pset.getPassword = false;
#endif

+ #ifndef HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS
+ options.host = "localhost";
+ #endif
+
parse_psql_options(argc, argv, &options);

if (!pset.popt.topt.fieldSep)





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