Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> * Andres Freund (andres(at)anarazel(dot)de) wrote:
>> Why would pipes be more useful? Its not like you could build useful pipelines
>> with them.
> The point is to avoid the risk that someone else could connect to the
> database at the same time you're doing work on it.
Right. Unless I misunderstand the semantics of named pipes on Windows,
we don't want that because in principle some unrelated process could
connect to it as soon as you set it up.
regards, tom lane