[imp] PostgreSQL setup problem?

[Jon Parise]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 12:34:09PM -0500, Michael Bull wrote:

> >You can connect via the Unix domain socket by adding this:
> >
> >    $conf['prefs']['params']['protocol'] = 'unix';
> 
> Do you suspect this to be any advantage?
 
If I don't have a reason to expose my PostgreSQL server over the
network, I generally prefer not to.  As far as performance is
concerned, I'd suspect the domain socket to be nominally faster
than TCP/IP, but I can't back that up.

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