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Previously, if no host information had been specified at connection time, PQhost() would return NULL (unless you are on Windows, in which case you got "localhost"). This is an unhelpful definition for a couple of reasons: it can cause corner-case crashes in applications (cf commit c5ef8ce53d), and there's no well-defined way for applications to find out the socket directory path that's actually in use. As an example of the latter problem, psql substituted DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR for NULL in a couple of places, but this is subtly wrong because it's conceivable that psql is using a libpq shared library that was built with a different setting. Hence, change PQhost() to return DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR when appropriate, and strip out the now-dead substitutions in psql. (There is still one remaining reference to DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR in psql, in prompt.c, which I don't see a nice way to get rid of. But it only controls a prompt abbreviation decision, so it seems noncritical.) Also update the docs for PQhost, which had never previously mentioned the possibility of a socket directory path being returned. In passing fix the outright-incorrect code comment about PGconn.pgunixsocket.
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