The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
> On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Edmund Mergl wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > in the current snapshot there is no default for PGHOST
> > in src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c.
> > In 6.2 this was 'localhost', which is a reasonable default.
>
> Default operation now is 'Unix Domain Sockets'...PGHOST isn't a viable
> default. The only time that PGHOST is a viable default is if -i is issued to
> postmaster when started up...
>
> Marc G. Fournier
> Systems Administrator @ hub.org
> primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
sorry, but I still didn't get that. What do I have to do in order
to be able to connect to the backend running on the localhost
without setting PGHOST and without specifying the host in
PQconnectdb() ?
Edmund
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