Excerpts from Florian Weimer's message of jue nov 24 11:31:29 -0300 2011:
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> * Alvaro Herrera:
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> > I think we should just propose something that will not work in JDBC.
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> I'm not sure if this is a good idea. 8-)
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> I plan to add UNIX Domain socket support to the JDBC driver.
> Eventually, the JDK will expose UNIX Domain sockets to Java code, too
> (they are already used internally for management functions).
Well, in that case, the JDBC could simply adopt whatever syntax that
libpq ends up adopting. I just meant "something that will not work in
JDBC *right now*" (i.e. with no local socket support).
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