From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | "Hamlin, Garick L" <ghamlin(at)isc(dot)upenn(dot)edu> |
Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Unix-domain socket support on Windows |
Date: | 2019-12-18 16:03:40 |
Message-ID: | 5231fafe-bda0-5a4d-d75b-c83d96ee5758@2ndquadrant.com |
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On 2019-12-18 15:24, Hamlin, Garick L wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 02:52:15PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> To implement this, tweak things so that setting DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR
>> to "" has the desired effect. This mostly already worked like that;
>> only a few places needed to be adjusted. Notably, the reference to
>> DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR in UNIXSOCK_PATH() could be removed because all
>> callers already resolve an empty socket directory setting with a
>> default if appropriate.
>
> Would it make sense to support abstract sockets in PostgreSQL?
Maybe, I'm not sure.
> I know it's bit unrelated. I haven't read all the code here I just was
> thinking about it because of the code checking the leading \0 byte of the dir.
We would probably represent abstract sockets with a leading '@' in the
user-facing components and only translate it to the internal format at
the last moment, probably in that very same UNIXSOCK_PATH() function.
So I think that wouldn't be a problem.
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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
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