Alexey Parshin <alexeyp@gmail.com> writes:
> And then found a link /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Australia to
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Australia. Clearly, this isn't PostgreSQL
> fault. Removing that link solved it. Thanks a lot.
Ah-hah.
> A simple suggestion that would help in diagnostics: A message like 'too many
> dir entries demanded' is more useful if the path in question is shown. For
> example, a message like:
> *Too many dir entries demanded. The path is
> "/usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Australia/Australia/Australia/Eucla"*
Hmm, not sure this sort of thing has ever come up before. But certainly
we can expend a couple more bytes on that error message. Done in HEAD.
regards, tom lane
