Re: Inconvenience of pg_read_binary_file() - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: Inconvenience of pg_read_binary_file()
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In response to Re: Inconvenience of pg_read_binary_file()  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 03:44:25PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Pushed after some fooling with the docs and test cases.  (Notably,
> I do not think we can assume that pg_hba.conf exists in $PGDATA; some
> installations keep it elsewhere.  I used postgresql.auto.conf instead.)

Are you sure that this last part is a good idea?  We don't force the
creation of postgresql.auto.conf when starting a server, so this
impacts the portability of the tests with installcheck if one decides
to remove it from the data folder, and it sounds plausible to me that
some distributions do exactly that..

I guess that you could rely on config_file or hba_file instead.
--
Michael

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