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

Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> > the difference being that in 8.0 we printed the full path of the pid file, in
> > 8.1 we do not.  there could be a good reason for this,
> 
> 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).

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