Re: pgsql: Enable Unix-domain sockets support on Windows

On 2020-06-27 13:57, Amit Kapila wrote:
> Fair enough, but what should be the behavior in the Windows versions
> (<10) where Unix-domain sockets are not supported?

You get an error about an unsupported address family, similar to trying 
to use IPv6 on a system that doesn't support it.

> BTW, in which
> format the path needs to be specified for unix_socket_directories?  I
> tried with '/c/tmp', 'c:/tmp', 'tmp' but nothing seems to be working,
> it gives me errors like: "could not create lock file
> "/c/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock": No such file or directory" on server
> start.  I am trying this on Win7 just to check what is the behavior of
> this feature on it.

Hmm, the only thing I remember about this now is that you need to use 
native Windows paths, meaning you can't just use /tmp under MSYS, but it 
needs to be something like C:\something.  But the error you have there 
is not even about the socket file but about the lock file, which is a 
normal file, so if that goes wrong, it might be an unrelated problem.

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