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From Jacob Champion
Subject Re: BUG #19388: Failing to connect to postgres with EACCES error
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Msg-id CAOYmi+ki-_iH6-r-JzXQGur8Jt-iefMhKPhFZWWatrqt0RpFBg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: BUG #19388: Failing to connect to postgres with EACCES error  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 7:35 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> If anything, I'd lean towards removing the special exception for
> ENOTDIR ... I wonder why that's there.

I think removing that would take some adjustments to
pqGetHomeDirectory(), so that it actually checks for the existence of
that directory before returning true. `have_homedir` is kind of a
misleading name in this context.

--Jacob

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