unix sockets

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

Unix sockets for postgres was added to libzdb and is available in the  
repository http://code.google.com/p/libzdb/source/browse/ if you want  
to test.  Documented in http://code.google.com/p/libzdb/source/browse/trunk/doc/api-docs/postgresoptions.html

On 21. feb.. 2009, at 17.12, Paul J Stevens wrote:

> Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:
>> On Feb 21, 2009, at 1:07 PM, Paul J Stevens wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a mechanism for connecting to postgresql through a unix
>>> socket?
>>>
>>> I see there is a 'unix-socket' query option for mysql, but what
>>> about pgsql?
>>
>> No there isn't, but I was looking at the postgresql doc now and it
>> should be easy to add. Its simply a matter of replacing hostname at
>> connection time with the path to the dir containing the named socket.
>> I'll put it on mine backburner TODO list, unless you need it now for
>> the next DBMail release?
>
> Well, I'll 'need' it before releasing 2.4.0 but that one is still at
> least a few months away.