How to connect to db with .sock?

nickc · February 25, 2025, 10:07am

It looks like dbeaver doesn’t support socket connections. Someone posted a workaround here but I haven’t tested this with Local:

github.com/dbeaver/dbeaver

Support unix socket connections with junixsocket

opened 05:35PM - 15 Dec 20 UTC

closed 07:48AM - 28 Jan 21 UTC

jonjonw

feature request wait for response

## Problem dbeaver cannot connect to a local database over a unix socket. ##… Proposed Solution Use [junixsocket](https://github.com/kohlschutter/junixsocket) to connect to the local unix socket. I know local socket connections are not implemented in JDBC but it looks like junixsocket adds [support](https://kohlschutter.github.io/junixsocket/dependency.html) for it. It would be great not to have to create a password and edit my database config files to connect to my local postgresql sever.

Also worth checking this thread:

If that doesn’t help you could try an alternative MySQL GUI with socket support, such as TablePlus.

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How to connect to db with .sock?

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