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Re: Unix-domain socket support on Windows

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-08-07T14:58:54Z
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On 2019-08-07 16:06, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Am I reading the patches correctly, that getpeereid() still doesn't work 
> on Windows? That means that peer authentication doesn't work, right? 
> That's a bit sad. One of the big advantages of unix domain sockets over 
> TCP is peer authentication.

Correct, it's not supported.  I think it's plausible that they will add
this in the future.

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Commits

  1. Allow using Unix-domain sockets on Windows in tests

  2. pg_regress: Observe TMPDIR

  3. Enable Unix-domain sockets support on Windows

  4. psql: Remove one use of HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS

  5. Allow building without default socket directory

  6. Sort out getpeereid() and peer auth handling on Windows