Re: unix domain sockets on Windows.

On lör, 2011-12-31 at 17:06 -0800, Jeff Rule wrote:
> Does the postgres server support listening on unix domain sockets on windows?

No.

> It seems to me that they do not, but this is not called out directly in the documentation.
>
> Listen_address in postgresql.conf
>
> listen_addresses = '' # what IP address(es) to listen on;
> # comma-separated list of addresses;
> # defaults to 'localhost', '*' = all
> # (change requires restart)

It says right there that it controls what *IP addresses* to listen to.
It does not have anything to do with Unix-domain sockets. There are
other options that control whether and where those are created.