From 43dd1c647dca51542539593736ada636fdc5738b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Malcolm Tredinnick Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 11:33:57 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Fixed #3227 -- Clarified DATABASE_HOST semantics for PostgreSQL. git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@5361 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37 --- docs/settings.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/settings.txt b/docs/settings.txt index bf0a9f85f6..d51f23fd51 100644 --- a/docs/settings.txt +++ b/docs/settings.txt @@ -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 -------------