Re: 8.0: Absolute path required for INITDB?

What was the resolution of this? Can we make relative -L work or do we
add error checks for relative -L paths?

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Josh Berkus wrote:
> 8.0 beta CVS of 8/8/2004:
>
> If a relative path is used for the -L option in initdb, the following fatal
> error happens:
>
> ./initdb -D ../data -L ../share/postgresql/
> <snip>
> creating system views ... ok
> loading pg_description ... ERROR: could not open file
> "../share/postgresql/postgres.description" for reading: No such file or
> directory
> child process exited with exit code 1
>
> Is this intentional? The first dozen or so commands work fine with a relative
> path, and this executes fine with an absolute path for both -D and -L.
>
> SuSE 9.1, GCC 3.3.3
>
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> Josh Berkus
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