Re: Ability to listen on two unix sockets

On Thursday, June 07, 2012 06:20:32 PM Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > On Thursday, June 07, 2012 05:55:11 PM Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Honza Horak <hhorak@redhat.com> writes:
> > On 06/06/2012 04:50 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> >>> I wonder if the whole issue doesn't require libpq to also try multiple
> >>> hardcoded socket locations.
> >> 
> >> I don't really want to go there.
> > 
> > It would be really nice to have a development psql connect to a distro
> > installed psql and vice versa without having to specify -h /var/run/psql
> > and - h /tmp all the time...
> 
> I don't find that "nice" at all.  Which server did you actually connect
> to?  How do you control it?  You're going to end up needing the -h
> switch anyway.
They can't run on the same port anyway unless you disable listening on 
localhost. Changing a single port number is far less effort than typing -h 
/var/run/postgresql ;)

Anyway, I am not wed to this, and I don't plan to put work into it so I better 
shut up ;)

Andres
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