Windows default to localhost is in the wrong place

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Windows default to localhost is in the wrong place
Date: 2004-12-28 19:27:46
Message-ID: 2220.1104262066@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Isn't this fix in the wrong place?

2004-03-23 22:10 momjian

* src/bin/psql/startup.c: >>Also, what is the default connection
mode of psql? It should probably be
>>equivalent to "-h localhost", shouldn't it?
>>
>>
>
>Now that is something I had not thought of. Seems we can assume a
Win32
>psql can never use unix domain sockets, so defaulting that to
localhost
>is a good solution too.

Andrew Dunstan

ISTM that libpq itself ought to default to localhost, rather than
failing, on machines that don't have Unix sockets.

regards, tom lane

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