On Thursday, June 07, 2012 05:55:11 PM Tom Lane wrote:
> Honza Horak <hhorak@redhat.com> writes:
> > On 06/06/2012 04:50 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> >> I wonder if the whole issue doesn't require libpq to also try multiple
> >> hardcoded socket locations.
> >
> > I guess so.
>
> I don't really want to go there. Some use cases have been shown in
> this thread for having a server listen in multiple places, but that does
> not translate to saying that clients need to support automatically
> looking in multiple places. I think that mainly introduces questions we
> could do without, like which server did you actually end up contacting.
It would be really nice to have a development psql connect to a distro
installed psql and vice versa without having to specify -h /var/run/psql and -
h /tmp all the time...
Andres
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