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Date:      Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:53:00 +0000
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: database apps that ignore sockets? [was: Solution: mysqld fails to run, can't create/find mysql.sock]
Message-ID:  <4F13127C.6060408@infracaninophile.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <0E0B740B-4E2C-41C8-A8A4-BC92DC0D7089@mac.com>
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On 15/01/2012 17:20, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> If you specify a hostname and port via "--host=3Dlocalhost
> --port=3D3306", then you are describing a TCP socket.  There is no
> pathname involved.  You could connect regardless of where mysqld is
> putting the socket.

Some MySQL clients will gratuitously change a connection attempt to
localhost to use the /tmp/mysql.sock unix domain socket because it does
perform a bit faster, and it seems they don't expect their users to just
ask for a socket connection explicitly.  You can test this fairly
simply: set up your server with 'skip-networking' temporarily and try
making client connections to it.

Of course, for some language API's there's no option but to use a
network socket -- Java being a case in point -- but that's the exception
rather than the rule.

To force the command line mysql(1) client to use a network connection to
localhost you need to use the --protocol=3DTCP argument

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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