On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:34:38PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm not sure if that's a bug or not. Arguably, different socket paths
> might point to different servers for which you need different passwords.
> If we did want unix-socket connections to search for "localhost"
> regardless of socket pat
Joachim Wieland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The documentation suggests that the hostname part of .pgpass can be set to
> "localhost" to allow for automatic unix domain socket authentication. This
> doesn't seem to work. Instead you have to set the directory of the socket as
> the hostname part.
The documentation for the .pgpass file seems to be incorrect with respect to
unix domain sockets.
There's also a user comment saying that:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/libpq-pgpass.html
The documentation suggests that the hostname part of .pgpass can be set to
"localhost" to al
