python connection with unix_socket

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Date: 2015-06-09 15:28:05 +0200
From: Guillaume Savary <<guillaume.savary>>
To: clients devs <>
Version: -- development

Last updated: 2015-08-28 13:41:53 +0200

Comment 20911

Date: 2015-06-09 15:28:05 +0200
From: Guillaume Savary <<guillaume.savary>>

It seems you cannot connect to the server with unix_socket. The hostname is forced to 'localhost'.

Here is the patch to apply on python2. (Do the same for python3) :

diff --git a/clients/python2/monetdb/mapi.py b/clients/python2/monetdb/mapi.py
index 1535836..1e6e515 100644
--- a/clients/python2/monetdb/mapi.py
+++ b/clients/python2/monetdb/mapi.py
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ class Connection(object):
hostname = None
if not unix_socket and os.path.exists("/tmp/.s.monetdb.%i" % port):
unix_socket = "/tmp/.s.monetdb.%i" % port

•    elif not hostname:
  

•    elif not unix_socket and not hostname:
         hostname = 'localhost'
  
     self.hostname = hostname
  

Comment 21069

Date: 2015-07-30 13:07:42 +0200
From: MonetDB Mercurial Repository <>

Changeset c1ba05ee9a5e made by Sjoerd Mullender sjoerd@acm.org in the MonetDB repo, refers to this bug.

For complete details, see http//devmonetdborg/hg/MonetDB?cmd=changeset;node=c1ba05ee9a5e

Changeset description:

Applied patch from bug #3735.

Comment 21070

Date: 2015-07-30 13:08:18 +0200
From: @sjoerdmullender

Thanks. Your patch looks good.

Comment 21192

Date: 2015-08-28 13:41:53 +0200
From: @sjoerdmullender

Jul2015 has been released.