Andreas Pflug wrote: > Hm, easily mixed up with localhost, which uses a socket too. But we > don't have the space for 'local unix socket' either.
The official terms are such that sockets in the file system namespace are AF_LOCAL (or AF_UNIX), and sockets in the Internet namespace are AF_INET. So using "local (domain) socket" or "Unix (domain) socket" would be reasonable. (Both are used by PostgreSQL.) A pipe on the other hand is created by the pipe() function and does not have a socket or a namespace since it is internal to the creating process, which is the distinguishing characteristic between a pipe and a socket. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
