Re: .pgpass file and unix domain sockets - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: .pgpass file and unix domain sockets
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Msg-id 4469F499.1040002@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: .pgpass file and unix domain sockets  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Joachim Wieland <joe@mcknight.de> writes:
>
>> I send in the appended documentation patch to fix at least the
>> documentation.
>>
>
> This is wrong according to my tests.  "localhost" *does* work,
> at least in some cases.
>
>

As I understand it, the only case where it doesn't is where an explicit
host connection parameter pointing to the socket directory, or the same
via PGHOST, is used, Is that right?

cheers

andrew

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