Skip site navigation (1) Skip section navigation (2)

Peripheral Links

Header And Logo

PostgreSQL
| The world's most advanced open source database.

Site Navigation

Search for
  Advanced Search

Re: socket versus 127.0.0.1



Am Sonntag, 25. Mai 2008 schrieb Mag Gam:
>
> what is faster as in performance wise -- a Unix socket for a
> 127.0.0.1(loopback connection)?

If there is any difference at all, the Socket should be faster. It is a 
data-stream in the "virtual" file-system. 

The loopback needs to create IP-packets. But the optimization might be very 
high, so you maybe won't recognize any difference.




Home | Main Index | Thread Index

Privacy Policy | PostgreSQL Archives hosted by Command Prompt, Inc. | Designed by tinysofa
Copyright © 1996 – 2008 PostgreSQL Global Development Group