| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Daniel Åkerud <zilch(at)home(dot)se> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: TCP/IP Sockets, UNIX Sockets |
| Date: | 2001-06-23 18:46:58 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.30.0106232044590.724-100000@peter.localdomain |
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Daniel Åkerud writes:
> What I means was, using the C API for PostgreSQL, how can I choose whether I
> want to use UNIX Sockets or regular TCP/IP Socktets? On MySQL I write either
> 127.0.0.1 for TCP/IP or "localhost" for UNIX Sockets.
Please peruse the description at
http://www.de.postgresql.org/devel-corner/docs/postgres/libpq.html#LIBPQ-CONNECT.
In particular look for the "host" parameter. If it's empty or starts with
a slash, then it's a unix domain socket, otherwise it's TCP/IP. (Note
that "localhost" is TCP/IP in libpq.)
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter
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