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Add support for abstract Unix-domain sockets

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

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Commit: c9f0624bc2f544baacafa38e3797d5323401d039
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Date: 2020-11-25T07:33:57Z
Releases: 14.0 
Add support for abstract Unix-domain sockets

This is a variant of the normal Unix-domain sockets that don't use the
file system but a separate "abstract" namespace.  At the user
interface, such sockets are represented by names starting with "@".
Supported on Linux and Windows right now.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/6dee8574-b0ad-fc49-9c8c-2edc796f0033@2ndquadrant.com

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doc/src/sgml/config.sgml modified +23 −1
doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml modified +4 −1
src/backend/libpq/pqcomm.c modified +8 −0
src/bin/psql/command.c modified +5 −10
src/bin/psql/prompt.c modified +2 −1
src/common/ip.c modified +23 −1
src/include/libpq/pqcomm.h modified +9 −0
src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c modified +2 −2

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