Re: Specification of "/" in the host name (for Unix socket support)

On 12/09/2003 20:20 Deepak Bhole wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>     We are trying to add support for Unix sockets to the current jdbc
> (for
> our own release for now). The support is added via gnu classpath,located
> at: http://www.nfrese.net/software/gnu_net_local/overview.html
>
>     Since Unix sockets require specification of path to the socket,
> the url
> would be something like: jdbc:postgresql:///tmp:5432/template1...


Why on earth are you trying to pollute the JDBC driver with
platform-specific non-portable features that can be of no possible benefit
to anyone except commercial companies attempting to use any underhanded
means to lock customers into their product? Are you trying be the new
Microsoft?

Get real. If Red Hat want to improve the JDBC driver, the ability to
properly use server side prepared statements from a JDBC connection pool
would give a massively bigger performance gain that anything you possibly
ever get between tcp/ip and unix sockets. Can you see why I'm so
suspicious about the companies motives? (excludes alternative explaination
that you don't have a clue...)

And just for the record, I'm 100% Red Hat Linux user.

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