Re: [CYGWIN] authentication

"Chris Faulkner" <chrisf@oramap.com> writes:
> I guess I brought the vocabulary from MySQL were you use "skip networking"
> and the server allows you to connect on the local machine with named pipes,
> even with JDBC.

Just out of curiosity, what do they use to support that on the client
side?  We were recently told that there is no pure-Java access to
Unix sockets (a/k/a named pipes), because it's not a portable OS feature.
Do they have a type 4 JDBC driver that handles this?

            regards, tom lane