Improve PQhost() to return useful data for default Unix-socket connections.
Previously, if no host information had been specified at connection time,
PQhost() would return NULL (unless you are on Windows, in which case you
got "localhost"). This is an unhelpful definition for a couple of reasons:
it can cause corner-case crashes in applications (cf commit c5ef8ce53d),
and there's no well-defined way for applications to find out the socket
directory path that's actually in use. As an example of the latter
problem, psql substituted DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR for NULL in a couple of
places, but this is subtly wrong because it's conceivable that psql is
using a libpq shared library that was built with a different setting.
Hence, change PQhost() to return DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR when appropriate,
and strip out the now-dead substitutions in psql. (There is still one
remaining reference to DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR in psql, in prompt.c, which
I don't see a nice way to get rid of. But it only controls a prompt
abbreviation decision, so it seems noncritical.)
Also update the docs for PQhost, which had never previously mentioned
the possibility of a socket directory path being returned. In passing
fix the outright-incorrect code comment about PGconn.pgunixsocket.
Branch
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master
Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/40cb21f70b4ef2721c38be6628298fb21fa7d2d2
Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml | 4 ++++
src/bin/psql/command.c | 10 ++--------
src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c | 5 ++++-
src/interfaces/libpq/libpq-int.h | 7 +++----
4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)