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.
>
> If there is no real reason for not having a default for
> the host-option, please provide 'localhost' as default.
I think this was changed to allow UNIX Sockets to be the default if no
hostname is provided.
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