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### Unix Domain Sockets

Connections to unix sockets can also be made. This can be useful on distros like Ubuntu, where authentication is managed via the socket connection instead of a password.
Connections to unix sockets can also be made by setting `host` to the directory that contains the PostgreSQL socket (commonly `/run/postgresql` or `/tmp`). Unix sockets can support [peer authentication](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/auth-peer.html) without a password.

```js
import pg from 'pg'
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