Re: Connecting via Unix sockets?

[Alan H. <aho...@si...>]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 09:56:12AM +0800, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I am not as much into Perl as I am into PHP4, but I was wondering, will it
> be possible to configure SQL Ledger to possibly connect to PostgreSQL via
> Unix sockets? Aside from a theoretical speed increase (however unfelt),
> forcing the postmaster to not listen on TCP might be a good security move
> for certain sites. On PHP4 this can be done by setting the protocol from
> tcp to unix. I don't know if this can be done with SQL-Ledger and Perl.
> Any gives?

Edit <user>.config.  Remove the host= and port= from the dbconnect string.
I'm using an older version, but something similar should still apply.
DBD::Pg will connect via UNIX domain socket by default. 


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