Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > >Patch to throw an error if -L is not an abolute path attached and > >applied. > > > > > > > Why are we placing this restriction? What Josh tried to do seems > perfectly reasonable to me. Rather I would ask why we changed the > description-loading routine in version 1.7 of initdb.c to use a copy > from file instead of what happens everywhere else where initdb loads the > file and feeds it to the postgres stdin? And if we want to keep doing > that rather than being consistent with the rest of initdb, can't we just > make sure we make the path absolute?
I am fine with that if someone wants to code it. I just did the minimal to prevent strange failures. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match