Re: [HACKERS] Cannot initdb in cvs tip

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Cannot initdb in cvs tip
Date: 2004-07-28 14:29:31
Message-ID: 22398.1091024971@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> The small wrinkle here is that rmtree needs to make a copy of the file
> names before it starts removing things. In the backend case that means
> calling palloc() and friends - am I correct in assuming it is reasonable
> to do this in whatever context happens to be current when rmtree is
> called?

Sure.

regards, tom lane

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