Re: change the value of "unix_socket_directories" , must used "-h /xx/xx" to use the Unix domain socket

On 8/16/2014 9:01 AM, Nick Guenther wrote:
> First thing to point out is that you need only one of -h and -p.  They are redundant options, because you only
connectto postgres either over TCP (-p) or with a unix domain socket (-h). 

what??!?   no, this is totally wrong.

     psql -h myserver -p 5435

     psql -h /path/to/socket -p 5433

those are both valid.  if there is no hostname, OR the hostname starts
with /, then it uses a unix domain socket.





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