I am now confused about the original report. I don't see how my fix
would correct the reported problem. trim_trailing_separator() would
have handled d:\pgdata\ and d:\pgdata just fine. The fix only corrects
d:\.
Magnus, does current CVS fix the problem?
I think this still is not fixed. I think we need to add a call to
trim_trailing_separator() in checkDataDir(). Magnus, can you confirm
this will fix it?
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
I am now confused about the original
Oops, path patch attached.
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
I think this still is not fixed. I think we need to add a call to
trim_trailing_separator() in checkDataDir(). Magnus, can you confirm
this will fix it?
OK, I have fixed the problem. While your patch got close, it is best to
fix the problem in trim_trailing_separator() rather than above.
Tom already fixed the Unix case by preventing a path of '/' from being
stripped. This patch prevents c:/ and //network/ from being stripped
too. (Tom already
Tom Lane wrote:
Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's not possible to start the postmaster on win32 with:
postmaster -D d:\pgdata\
or
postmaster -D d:/pgdata/
Sounds like canonicalize_path() needs to be applied a bit sooner than
it is.
BTW I think canonicalize_path() is a few
