Patch to throw an error if -L is not an abolute path attached and
applied.
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> 8.0 beta CVS of 8/8/2004:
>
> If a relative path is used for the -L option in initdb, the following fatal
> error happens:
>
> ./initdb -D ../data -L ../share/postgresql/
> <snip>
> creating system views ... ok
> loading pg_description ... ERROR: could not open file
> "../share/postgresql/postgres.description" for reading: No such file or
> directory
> child process exited with exit code 1
>
> Is this intentional? The first dozen or so commands work fine with a relative
> path, and this executes fine with an absolute path for both -D and -L.
>
> SuSE 9.1, GCC 3.3.3
>
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> San Francisco
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Index: src/bin/initdb/initdb.c
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RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c,v
retrieving revision 1.49
diff -c -c -r1.49 initdb.c
*** src/bin/initdb/initdb.c 11 Aug 2004 23:28:54 -0000 1.49
--- src/bin/initdb/initdb.c 16 Aug 2004 03:41:45 -0000
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*** 2234,2240 ****
share_path = xmalloc(MAXPGPATH);
get_share_path(backend_exec, share_path);
}
!
canonicalize_path(share_path);
if ((short_version = get_short_version()) == NULL)
--- 2234,2245 ----
share_path = xmalloc(MAXPGPATH);
get_share_path(backend_exec, share_path);
}
! else if (!is_absolute_path(share_path))
! {
! fprintf(stderr, _("%s: input file location must be an absolute path\n"), progname);
! exit(1);
! }
!
canonicalize_path(share_path);
if ((short_version = get_short_version()) == NULL)
