From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: c.santos@asctechnologies.com
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: 127.0.0.1 or localhost
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 19:04:29 -0400
Message-ID: <144187.1604099069@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <160408279022.7809.11205153599276240373@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
References: <160408279022.7809.11205153599276240373@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:
> It's not actually a problem, it's a question. pgpass in my case, has two
> lines, one with 127.0.0.1 and another with localhost
> what would be the difference from one to another. ??
AFAIR, the field is matched to how you wrote the hostname in the
connection parameters.
Also, it looks like there's a special case to consider 'localhost'
as matching a Unix-socket connection, if the socket is in the
installation's default socket directory.
regards, tom lane
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