Re: pidfile location missing after restarting crashed server in 8.1

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Yeah: it's now being accessed by a relative path (relative to $PGDATA,
> >> which we have already chdir'd into at this point).
>
> > So we should include PGDATA in the error message (DataDir actually, I
> > guess).
>
> I don't think that follows. The code prints exactly the path name it's
> using to access the file, and I think that's exactly what it should
> print.

It's not useful for the user that way. Besides, we know what we did
chdir() to, so we could present that information to the user.

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Alvaro Herrera
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