Re: specifying unix domain socket name

No, the name is .s.PGSQL.{port#}, and there is a lock file.  Why do you
want to specify a different name?

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aktivists@inbox.lv wrote:
> Is it possible to specify using PQsetdbLogin() or
> PQconnectdb()
> the name of unix domain socket?
>
> In documentation I read that I can specify path using host:
> host
>     Name of the host to connect to. If this begins with
> a slash ('/'), it
> specifies Unix domain communication rather than TCP/IP
> communication.
> >>>The value is the name of the directory in which the
> socket file is stored.<<<
> The default is to connect to a Unix-domain socket in /tmp.
>
> And using port I can specify socket name extension:
> port
>     The port number to connect to at the server host,
> >>>or the socket filename extension<<< for Unix-domain
> connections.
>
> How is it possible to specify full unix domain socket
> path and name, not only path and extension?
>
> Thanks
> Ervin
>
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