[mythtv] [GitHub] Set the default DB port to 3306 instead of making '0' mean default. [MythTV/mythtv 859ad36]

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/14/2011 12:40 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> Moving to the archived list where people are subscribed to talk about
> dev issues, rather than some hard-to-find, impossible-to-search comments
> stuck in github...
>
> On 04/14/2011 12:14 PM, rkulagowski wrote:
>> The power of git bisect (yay!) shows that this commit is breaking something on my system...
>>
>> 859ad36a6c1a9ab181f20f4a02915cf1341efb93 is the first bad commit
>> commit 859ad36a6c1a9ab181f20f4a02915cf1341efb93
>> Author: Chris Pinkham<cpinkham at mythtv.org>
>> Date:   Thu Apr 14 01:10:04 2011 -0400
>>
>>       Set the default DB port to 3306 instead of making '0' mean default.
>>
>> :040000 040000 d62f37d23a146348167be452689a029a0981db3c 174d3e96965eb3dc90998e51f58deab7071d9764 M      mythtv
>>
> If DB port is set to anything other than 0 and the database host name is
> localhost, we presume that the user--for some reason--wants to try a
> TCP/IP connection to localhost, so we change the database host name to
> 127.0.0.1.  MySQL treats the localhost hostname specially and uses a
> socket connection, rather than a TCP/IP connection.  I'm guessing you
> haven't granted permissions allowing such a connection.
>

Robert, FWIW, if you remove the conditional at:

https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/blob/master/mythtv/libs/libmythbase/mythdbcon.cpp#L126

does everything work properly?

Mike