Re: pgsql-server/src backend/main/main.c backend/p ... - Mailing list pgsql-committers

Tom Lane wrote:
> momjian@svr1.postgresql.org (Bruce Momjian) writes:
> >     Remove elog() calls from find_my_exec;  do fprintf(stderr) instead.
>
> Isn't that a seriously bad idea?
>
> I thought that output to stderr generally goes into the bit bucket in
> Windows.

Yes, it probably is bad, but I am not sure how frequently this will
happen, _and_ I need to set my_exec_path very far up in the tree to the
timezone stuff knows the location, hence the fact that elog() calls
wouldn't work at all anyway, I think.

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