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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Jeff Rule <Jeffrey.Rule@demandtec.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: unix domain sockets on Windows.
Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:20:41 +0200
Message-ID: <1325431241.14249.2.camel@vanquo.pezone.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8A2EEC32C0D5254293E8C8D0B6D3B7C11BE92A42F5@dthqexch01.demandtec.com>
References: <8A2EEC32C0D5254293E8C8D0B6D3B7C11BE92A42F5@dthqexch01.demandtec.com>

On lör, 2011-12-31 at 17:06 -0800, Jeff Rule wrote:
> Does the postgres server support listening on unix domain sockets on windows?

No.

> It seems to me that they do not, but this is not called out directly in the documentation.
> 
> Listen_address in postgresql.conf
> 
>     listen_addresses = ''      # what IP address(es) to listen on;
>                         # comma-separated list of addresses;
>                         # defaults to 'localhost', '*' = all
>                         # (change requires restart)

It says right there that it controls what *IP addresses* to listen to.
It does not have anything to do with Unix-domain sockets.  There are
other options that control whether and where those are created.





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