On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 11:08:05AM -0400, Rick Morrison wrote: > I think that psycopg2 will automatically use a Unix socket if a host address > is omitted on the connection call. You'd need a way to have SA not supply > that -- not sure how that would fit in with the dburi way of things. What's > the big deal with using localhost anyway? I was under the impression that it > was optimized for most of the Unixen and BSDs out there to be about as fast > as a socket anyway. The deal is that password-less access via UNIX local domain sockets based IDENT authentication is thought to be more secure than doing IDENT based authentication via a TCP/IP level sockets (which would be the case when connecting to localhost).
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