On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 21:30:50 +0100,
Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet(a)amorsen.dk> wrote:
That will give you an installation with quite reasonable defaults
including Unix-socket connectivity.
Of course then you discover all the PHP toys written for MySQL which
can't be told to connect a) by Unix sockets and b) without a username
and password.
I am pretty sure Postgres also listens on the loopback interface by default.