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From: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
To: pgsql-general <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: issue with reading hostname
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 17:11:22 -0400
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On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 4:14 PM Atul Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have postgresql  version 15 running on centos7.
>
> I have below query that reads hostname from /tmp directory:
>
> psql postgres -A -t -p 5432 -h /tmp/ -c 'SELECT pg_is_in_recovery();'
>

If you installed from the PGDG repository (possibly also the CENTOS repos,
but I'm not sure), then the domain socket also lives in :
/var/run/postgresql

* I find that more expressive than /tmp.
* No need to specify the host when using sockets.
* Using a socket name makes parameterizing the hostname easier in scripts.


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