On Wed, 28 Dec 2016, John R Pierce wrote:
> with psql, no -h and -h localhost are two different connection types. if
> you don't specify a -h, it uses a 'unix domain socket',
Thanks, John. I believe that I understand the differences. Here,
/var/lib/pgsql/9.6/data/pg_hba.conf contains:
# IPv4 local connections:
host all rshepard 192.168.55.0/24 trust
hostnossl all rshepard 192.168.55.0/24 trust
I've left the ipv6 line alone.
Regards,
Rich