Doug McNaught <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Marko Karppinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> On 17. touko 2004, at 10:40, Tatsuo Ishii wrote: > >> > Consider a program using JDBC on localhost. It can only reach to > >> > PostgreSQL via TCP/IP. > > > > Huh? Why on earth would that be true? Is this a limitation of our JDBC > > drivers? > > Java doesn't support Unix domain sockets. If you want to use JDBC, > you have to use TCP sockets.
That doesn't follow. That just means you can't implement a unix domain socket driver using only Java. Is there some reason the driver has to be pure a Java driver? I had always assumed the JDBC driver isn't currently pure java and is just an API wrapper around libpq. Writing and maintaining a pure java driver would be much more work and be much slower for no practical gain. -- greg ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly