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authorMalcolm Tredinnick <malcolm.tredinnick@gmail.com>2007-05-27 11:33:57 +0000
committerMalcolm Tredinnick <malcolm.tredinnick@gmail.com>2007-05-27 11:33:57 +0000
commit43dd1c647dca51542539593736ada636fdc5738b (patch)
tree27bdc4d3c2781a50e1816a43e0f43bccd67a9e97 /docs
parentd66b56f53be3a5c42468be1441688da927357703 (diff)
Fixed #3227 -- Clarified DATABASE_HOST semantics for PostgreSQL.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@5361 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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@@ -264,6 +264,11 @@ MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example::
If you're using MySQL and this value *doesn't* start with a forward slash, then
this value is assumed to be the host.
+If you're using PostgreSQL, an empty string means to use a Unix domain socket
+for the connection, rather than a network connection to localhost. If you
+explictly need to use a TCP/IP connection on the local machine with
+PostgreSQL, specify ``localhost`` here.
+
DATABASE_NAME
-------------