Re: BUG #14872: libpq requires a home directory

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: dcwatson(at)gmail(dot)com, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #14872: libpq requires a home directory
Date: 2017-10-25 22:40:20
Message-ID: 28499.1508971220@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Poking around, it looks like parseServiceInfo's search for
>> ~/.pg_service.conf has the same disease, but that code's been like that
>> since 2010 --- I wonder why it's not causing you problems? Are you maybe
>> setting PGSERVICEFILE to prevent that from failing?

> Yeah... I was halfway into hacking a patch for that but got drowned
> into other things until I saw your message. Are you working on a
> patch?

Yeah, I'm on it.

regards, tom lane

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