Re: Tr: Bug#281853: pgadmin3: support local connection?

[Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>]

blacknoz(at)club-internet(dot)fr wrote:
> Hi Ian, pgAdmin-Hackers,
>
> ----Message réexpédié----
>
> > Sujet: Bug#281853: pgadmin3: support local connection?
> > De: Ian Zimmerman <itz(at)buug(dot)org>
> > A: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit(at)bugs(dot)debian(dot)org>
> > Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 23:21:53 -0800
> >
> > Package: pgadmin3
> > Version: 1.0.2-7
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > It was hard to believe, but it seems pgadmin3 cannot connect to a postgres
> > daemon which only listens on the local (a.k.a. Unix) socket.  Could this be
> > added please?
>
>
> that's a question I also asked to myself sometime ago... What's the reason we don't have a connection to a local socket in the connection dialog ? Is it because it would be Unix specific code and we don't want to make the app platform-specific (I mean no platform-specific functionalities) ? (just as we don't want to develop specific copy/paste/ole code for W32 users).

Historic reasons...
I just tried some hack, but I won't commit it for 1.2.

Regards,
Andreas