Re: relative_path() seems overly complicated and buggy - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: relative_path() seems overly complicated and buggy
Date
Msg-id 17614.1099782742@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: relative_path() seems overly complicated and buggy  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> What I'd like to do is simplify it to just check for exact equality
>>> up through the last directory separator in bin_path.  Any objections?
>> 
>> If you can simplify it, feel free.   I found that code much more complex
>> than I liked but couldn't simplify it.  Originally I thought that would
>> be used in more generic places but that hasn't happened.

> Let me try to clean it up first by using canonicalize_path() and
> comparing the result.

I already checked in the simplification.
        regards, tom lane


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