On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:51:09AM -0400, David Parker wrote:
>
> Is there anything like a client library for postgres that does not use
> tcp/ip as the protocol? As part of the performance tuning of our
> application, the question was posed to me whether there was a more
> "direct" sort of API that would not require going through the tcp/ip
> stack. I assume the answer to this is "no", and I see no hint of
> anything in the source code, but I thought I would ask the question,
> just to be sure.
PostgreSQL supports connections over Unix-domain (AF_UNIX) sockets
if your system does. They still use the socket interface, but
they're typically faster than a TCP connection.
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Michael Fuhr
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