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Re: HEADS UP: Win32/OS2/BeOS native ports

Matthew Kirkwood <matthew@hairy.beasts.org>

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From: Matthew Kirkwood <matthew@hairy.beasts.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, Igor Kovalenko <Igor.Kovalenko@motorola.com>, mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com>, <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-05-07T13:37:59Z
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On Tue, 7 May 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

> > Nobody actually needs to connect to the socket.  Simple,
> > race-free, 10 lines of code.
>
> ... and we already do it.  But it protects the port number, not
> the data directory.

If I understood him correctly, Marc was suggesting a further
domain socket inside the data directory.

Matthew.