On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 10:48 AM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > If we were executing a program that the user needs to have some control > over, sure, but what we have here is an implementation detail that I > doubt anyone cares about. The fact that we're using a shell at all is > only because nobody has cared to manually implement I/O redirection logic > in these places; otherwise we'd be execl()'ing the server or psql directly. > Maybe the best answer would be to do that, and get out of the business > of knowing where the shell is?
Well that also would not be crazy. -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com