Re: .pgpass file and unix domain sockets

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>>> This is wrong according to my tests.  "localhost" *does* work,
>>> at least in some cases.
>>>
>
>
>> As I understand it, the only case where it doesn't is where an explicit
>> host connection parameter pointing to the socket directory, or the same
>> via PGHOST, is used, Is that right?
>>
>
> Well, the point is that if you do that then you have to write that
> socket directory as the hostname in .pgpass.  What was on the table for
> discussion was whether we like that behavior as-is (in which case we'd
> better document it), or whether we should make it match "localhost" in
> all cases, or whether we should do some third thing.
>
> Personally I wouldn't object to making it match "localhost" in all
> cases.  That's what the documentation says, and the use-case for
> doing something more complicated seems pretty thin.
>
>
>

I almost agree. If anything, I'd prefer to provide for an explicit entry
covering all Unix Domain sockets - it took me by some surprise to find a
while back that "localhost" covers that case - it seems a mismatch with
how pg_hba.conf works.

cheers

andrew