Daniel Åkerud writes:
> What I means was, using the C API for PostgreSQL, how can I choose whether I
> want to use UNIX Sockets or regular TCP/IP Socktets? On MySQL I write either
> 127.0.0.1 for TCP/IP or "localhost" for UNIX Sockets.
Please peruse the description at
http://www.de.postgresql.org/devel-corner/docs/postgres/libpq.html#LIBPQ-CONNECT.
In particular look for the "host" parameter. If it's empty or starts with
a slash, then it's a unix domain socket, otherwise it's TCP/IP. (Note
that "localhost" is TCP/IP in libpq.)
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