Re: [PATCH] Find additional connection service files in pg_service.conf.d directory

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 7:45 AM, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
<adsmail(at)wars-nicht(dot)de> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 7:40 PM, Curt Tilmes <curt(at)tilmes(dot)org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 1:13 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> Looked over this patch and found that you limit the directory entries to
> files only.
> Would it make sense to allow links as well? That would allow other
> programs/distributions to place a link in the config directory and point to
> a service file in their own directory.

I call stat(2), which from my understanding for a link will follow the
link and return
the information from the file linked to, not the link itself (which
lstat(2) would do).

I tried it out and it seems to work fine for links.

Curt