Re: pgsql: Enable Unix-domain sockets support on Windows

On 6/30/20 12:13 AM, Amit Kapila wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 8:48 PM Andrew Dunstan
> <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
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>>
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>> It needs to be a path from the Windows POV, not an Msys virtualized
>> path. So c:/tmp or just /tmp should work, but /c/tmp or similar probably
>> will not. The directory needs to exist. I just checked that this is
>> working, both in postgresql.conf and on the psql command line.
>>
> Okay, thanks for the verification. I was trying to see its behavior
> on Win7 or a similar environment where this feature is not supported
> to see if we get the appropriate error message. If by any chance, you
> have access to such an environment, then it might be worth trying on
> such an environment once.
>

I haven't had a working Windows 7 environment for quite some years.

cheers

andrew

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