Hi, Not sure if were just missing each others point?
On Thursday, April 05, 2012 05:20:04 PM Stephen Frost wrote: > > Why would pipes be more useful? Its not like you could build useful > > pipelines with them. > > The point is to avoid the risk that someone else could connect to the > database at the same time you're doing work on it. I got that. I just fail to see what the advantage of using two pipes instead of one socket as every other plain connection would be? Using named pipes solves that tidbit from Tom: > Notions like private socket directories don't solve this because we don't > have that option available on Windows. If you have named pipes or AF_UNIX sockets you can solve that by either just passing the fd to your child and not allowing any access to it (no problem on either platform) or by using a private directory. Andres -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
