Re: pg_ctl with unix domain socket?

On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 05:28:46PM +0530, Abbas wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Josef Wolf <jw@raven.inka.de> wrote:

Thanks for your fast response, Abbas!

> > I have created a fresh cluster with
> >   initdb -D /some/path/pgtest
> >   PGPORT=/some/path/pgtest pg_ctl -D/some/path/pgtest -l postgreslog start
>
> PGPORT should be the port number on which the Postgresql server is
> running(5432 is default), and  PGDATA=some/path/pgtest .

Yeah, I see.  But I do not want it to bind to network socket.  I want it to
bind to a unix domain socket  _only_.

While all other postgres commands accept an absolute path as port
specification, meaning to use a unix domain socket, pg_ctl seems to behave
differently.

e.g: I can start postgres on a unix domain socket _only_ with following
parameters:

   postgres -D /some/path/pgtest -h '' -k /some/path/pgtest

But pg_ctl don't seem to have an option to do the same.