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()?

-- 
Peter Eisentraut      peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net       http://yi.org/peter-e/

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