Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/src backend/main/main.c b ackend/p

Claudio Natoli wrote:
>
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> > > Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > > > Tom Lane wrote:
> > > >> Also, in the non-exec case it seems unnecessary and possibly unsafe
> to
> > > >> repeat this computation in a backend.
> > >
> > > > Thanks. It originally was as below and I forgot about that. It now
> is:
> > > > if (my_exec_path[0] == '\0' && find_my_exec(argv[0],
> my_exec_path) < 0)
> > > > The issue is that fork/exec will need to set it too.
> > >
> > > That fixes it for my_exec_path, but what of the pkglib_path stuff?
> >
> > OK, I will fix that one, though it is a cheap call.
>
> There's also the possibility of adding it to read/write_backend_variables,
> just as we add other variables for fork/exec that we want the backends to
> inherit.

In the exec case, the executable name is actually different from the
postmaster, so passing it doesn't make sense.

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