MariaDB and Fedora

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 21:30:50 +0100,
  Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet at 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.