Re: Windows default to localhost is in the wrong place - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Windows default to localhost is in the wrong place
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Msg-id 41D1B9C3.4080404@dunslane.net
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In response to Windows default to localhost is in the wrong place  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:

>Isn't this fix in the wrong place?
>
>2004-03-23 22:10  momjian
>
>    * src/bin/psql/startup.c: >>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.
>    
>    Andrew Dunstan
>
>
>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?

cheers

andrew


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