Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> Hmm. Good point. I didn't realize they already had to be ready to get a
> non-default path back.
Yeah, if it weren't for that, this would definitely be a hazardous change.
But AFAICS, an app that has a problem with this proposal was broken
already, it just didn't know it.
> Of course, the documentation just says it'll return a hostname. It should
> probably mention that it can return the unix socket path as well - but
> that's something that's missing already.
Agreed, will fix that.
regards, tom lane