On 11/06/2014 07:00 AM, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 11/6/2014 6:34 AM, Edoardo Panfili wrote:
>>
>> Why localhost is not an alias for 127.0.0.1 ?
>
> grep localhost /etc/hosts
>
> I've seen some weird stuff on some systems.
I have localhost/127.0.0.1 set up correctly on my machine and I see the
same behavior as the OP. I'm pretty sure it is an interaction between
the libpq host/hostaddr code and a .pgpass file. I suspect the OP has a
.pgpass entry for localhost but not 127.0.0.1.
>
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