Re: Why is failure to find file a "NOTICE"? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Why is failure to find file a "NOTICE"?
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.21.0011032147370.1076-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Re: Why is failure to find file a "NOTICE"?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Why is failure to find file a "NOTICE"?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane writes:

> > [*] -- The postmaster should refuse to start when the data directory is
> > not an absolute path.  I'm on that.
> 
> Either that, or convert it to an absolute path.  The problem is that the
> backends chdir() to their individual databases' data directories, so
> relative paths that were OK from the postmaster's perspective are no
> good anymore.

Is there a profound reason for this chdir()?

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Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/



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