Re: pidfile location missing after restarting crashed server in 8.1 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pidfile location missing after restarting crashed server in 8.1
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Msg-id 10859.1130355577@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: pidfile location missing after restarting crashed server in 8.1  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yeah: it's now being accessed by a relative path (relative to $PGDATA,
>> which we have already chdir'd into at this point).

> So we should include PGDATA in the error message (DataDir actually, I
> guess).

I don't think that follows.  The code prints exactly the path name it's
using to access the file, and I think that's exactly what it should
print.  Are we going to editorialize similarly on every other message
that includes a file name?
        regards, tom lane


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