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

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().

            regards, tom lane