On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 06:17:15PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > I agree. My recollection is that we expended substantial sweat to make > that type of setup work, and I do not think it was for idle reasons. > The fact that the behavior is very old doesn't mean it was a bad choice. > (Also, the fact that the commit message didn't explain the reasoning in > detail is not much of an argument; we didn't go in for that back > then.)
Yes, the current behavior is here for some time: commit: 336969e490d71c316a42fabeccda87f798e562dd author: Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 23:06:29 +0000 Add code to find_my_exec() to resolve a symbolic link down to the actual executable location. This allows people to continue to use setups where, eg, postmaster is symlinked from a convenient place. Per gripe from Josh Berkus. And the original thread is here: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/4973.1099605411%40sss.pgh.pa.us The last complain on the matter I can find actually involves the same people as this thread :) https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/54DE457F.2090206%40gmx.net So the patch should be marked as rejected or at least returned with feedback? -- Michael
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