Re: [PATCH] Prefer getenv("HOME") to find the UNIX home directory

On 2021-Oct-14, Anders Kaseorg wrote:

> This is important for systems where many users share the same UID, and
> for test systems that change HOME to avoid interference with the
> user’s real home directory. It matches what most applications do, as
> well as what glibc does for glob("~", GLOB_TILDE, …) and wordexp("~",
> …).
>
> There was some previous discussion of this in 2016, where although
> there were some questions about the use case, there seemed to be
> general support for the concept:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAEH6cQqbdbXoUHJBbX9ixwfjFFsUC-a8hFntKcci%3DdiWgBb3fQ%40mail.gmail.com

I think modifying $HOME is a strange way to customize things, but given
how widespread it is [claimed to be] today, it seems reasonable to do
things that way.

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Álvaro Herrera PostgreSQL Developer — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/