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Make libpq default to localhost connections on machines without Unix-domain

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sockets, rather than failing as it formerly did.  Revert the
thereby-obsoleted patch to make psql supply the localhost default.
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Tom Lane
2004-12-28 23:17:54 +00:00
parent 797c2b2501
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<!--
$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml,v 1.125 2004/12/27 20:13:48 tgl Exp $
$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml,v 1.126 2004/12/28 23:17:38 tgl Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
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<term><option>--port <replaceable class="parameter">port</replaceable></></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Specifies the TCP port or the local Unix domain
Specifies the TCP port or the local Unix-domain
socket file extension on which the server is listening for
connections. Defaults to the value of the <envar>PGPORT</envar>
environment variable or, if not set, to the port specified at
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<option>-d</option>, <option>-h</option>, <option>-p</option>, and
<option>-U</option> respectively. If an argument is found that does
not belong to any option it will be interpreted as the database name
(or the user name, if the database name is also given). Not all
these options are required, defaults do apply. If you omit the host
name, <application>psql</> will connect via a Unix domain socket
to a server on the local host, or via TCP/IP to <literal>localhost</> on machines
that don't have Unix domain sockets. The default port number is compile-time determined.
(or the user name, if the database name is already given). Not all
these options are required; there are useful defaults. If you omit the host
name, <application>psql</> will connect via a Unix-domain socket
to a server on the local host, or via TCP/IP to <literal>localhost</> on
machines that don't have Unix-domain sockets. The default port number is
determined at compile time.
Since the database server uses the same default, you will not have
to specify the port in most cases. The default user name is your
Unix user name, as is the default database name. Note that you can't
just connect to any database under any user name. Your database
administrator should have informed you about your access rights. To
save you some typing you can also set the environment variables
administrator should have informed you about your access rights.
</para>
<para>
When the defaults aren't quite right, you can save yourself
some typing by setting the environment variables
<envar>PGDATABASE</envar>, <envar>PGHOST</envar>,
<envar>PGPORT</envar> and <envar>PGUSER</envar> to appropriate
<envar>PGPORT</envar> and/or <envar>PGUSER</envar> to appropriate
values.
</para>