Tom Lane wrote:
>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.
>
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So then it would be picked up by pg_dump, createdb etc., plus third
party clients? Not a bad idea. Are you going to fix it for 8.0?
cheers
andrew