gnucash stable: Database default host: Fix comment.

John Ralls jralls at code.gnucash.org
Mon May 12 14:44:23 EDT 2025


Updated	 via  https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/commit/f915db9c (commit)
	from  https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/commit/155996a7 (commit)



commit f915db9c95c74d024b3c4dab36050c7665d3e3b1
Author: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
Date:   Mon May 12 11:42:41 2025 -0700

    Database default host: Fix comment.
    
    To correctly explain why flatpak needs an IP address instead of
    localhost.

diff --git a/gnucash/gnome-utils/dialog-file-access.c b/gnucash/gnome-utils/dialog-file-access.c
index 71921f7dec..c595e79f6a 100644
--- a/gnucash/gnome-utils/dialog-file-access.c
+++ b/gnucash/gnome-utils/dialog-file-access.c
@@ -40,8 +40,9 @@
 
 static QofLogModule log_module = GNC_MOD_GUI;
 
-/* Flatpak build blocks access to the resolver so it can't retrieve
- * localhost's IP address.
+/* MariaDB/MySQL/Postgres optimize localhost to a unix socket but
+ * flatpak won't connect to unix sockets without gymnastics default to
+ * the localhost IP to force a network connection.
  */
 #define DEFAULT_HOST "127.0.0.1"
 #define DEFAULT_DATABASE PROJECT_NAME



Summary of changes:
 gnucash/gnome-utils/dialog-file-access.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)



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