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From: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
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Re: James Cassell 2019-12-19 <02c6c7de-e2e2-48cd-94e7-7d65b7196ca5@www.fastmail.com>
> > Why in the world would you want that over just using peer..?
> 
> Peer does not work with TCP connections, and I haven't figured how to get,e.g., third-party Java applications working without TCP.

There's some GitHub repos that mention the use case of using UNIX
sockets with pgjdbc:

https://github.com/fiken/junixsocket
https://github.com/kohlschutter/junixsocket

Doesn't seem mainstream, though. Maybe someone should push for it...

Christoph