Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> ISTM that libpq itself ought to default to localhost, rather than
>> failing, on machines that don't have Unix sockets.
> So then it would be picked up by pg_dump, createdb etc., plus third
> party clients? Not a bad idea. Are you going to fix it for 8.0?
If I don't hear any objections in the next few hours ...
regards, tom lane