Re: FW: Configuring Postgres to use unix sockets

Richard_D_Levine@raytheon.com writes:

> Hi John,
>
> Unix sockets are a presentation layer interface to TCP/IP.  You're not
> avoiding it by using them.

That's not true.  Unix sockets are fundamentally different and do not
use TCP/IP at all.  They have their own namespace (in the Unix
filesystem) and go through their own delivery path in the kernel, not
through the TCP/IP stack, so they're often faster.

But, they only work on a single machine.  :)

-Doug