| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Proposed Windows-specific change: Enable crash dumps (like core files) |
| Date: | 2010-12-16 15:54:44 |
| Message-ID: | 21781.1292514884@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 15:56, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> I think the proposal for such a switch is unnecessary lily-gilding,
> Hmm. What we could do is have pg_ctl chdir() into the data directory
> on start.
See above. You're solving a problem that probably doesn't exist,
and introducing a pile of new ones in the process --- for example,
this will break commands that use relative paths for either the
postmaster executable or the data directory itself.
regards, tom lane
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