Re: location of Unix socket

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Am I handling this properly?  I hate to be dragging around the unix
> socket directory name in pghost for too long and hate to be propogating
> the slash test throughout the code.

It's probably cleanest to do that the way you are doing it.  However,
one could argue we should make PQhost() returnpghost ? pghost : pgunixsocket
which'd make the external behavior compatible with the way one specifies
the connection.

Basically, the idea was to *not* have a distinct unixsocket spec
anywhere in libpq's external API, so that existing apps wouldn't need
a rewrite to support this feature.  Keeping unixsocket separate inside
the library is a good idea, but it's independent of the API.
        regards, tom lane