Re: pgsql-server: Use strdup in pg_ctl for canonicalize_path - Mailing list pgsql-committers

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> You're not doing very well with this project :-(.  pg_ctl is now
> >> actively broken, because the PGDATA value passed down to the
> >> bootstrap backend is the one in the environment variable.  The
> >> previous coding canonicalized that, this does not.
>
> > I didn't think we could modify the environment variables like that
> > portably.
>
> Possibly not, but if you think that then the correct response is to
> re-assign the environment var using putenv().

Yea, but we clean up the variable on input to the backend anyway.

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