Re: Re: best Cygwin release/snapshot for Postgresql - Mailing list pgsql-ports

Jason Tishler writes:

> I used 7.1rc4 from Cygwin's contrib and everything seems to work as
> expected.  The regression tests all passed.  Even the enhanced AF_UNIX
> security worked as advertised.  If the client (i.e., psql) has read
> access to the socket file (i.e., /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432), then it can connect
> to postmaster.  Otherwise, the client gets a "Permission denied" failure.

Actually, connections to Unix domain sockets are controlled by *write*
access to the socket file.  Maybe Cygwin should change this.

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