On 2020-06-27 13:57, Amit Kapila wrote:
Fair enough, but what should be the behavior in the Windows versions (<10) where Unix-domain sockets are not supported?
You get an error about an unsupported address family, similar to trying to use IPv6 on a system that doesn't support it.
BTW, in which format the path needs to be specified for unix_socket_directories? I tried with '/c/tmp', 'c:/tmp', 'tmp' but nothing seems to be working, it gives me errors like: "could not create lock file "/c/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock": No such file or directory" on server start. I am trying this on Win7 just to check what is the behavior of this feature on it.
Hmm, the only thing I remember about this now is that you need to use native Windows paths, meaning you can't just use /tmp under MSYS, but it needs to be something like C:\something. But the error you have there is not even about the socket file but about the lock file, which is a normal file, so if that goes wrong, it might be an unrelated problem.
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