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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