Re: [PATCHES] [BUGS] 8.0: Absolute path required for INITDB?

2004-08-16 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: 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? That wa

Re: [PATCHES] [BUGS] 8.0: Absolute path required for INITDB?

2004-08-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
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 > descripti

Re: [PATCHES] [BUGS] 8.0: Absolute path required for INITDB?

2004-08-16 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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? That was to avoid a Win

Re: [PATCHES] [BUGS] 8.0: Absolute path required for INITDB?

2004-08-16 Thread Andrew Dunstan
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 c

Re: [PATCHES] [BUGS] 8.0: Absolute path required for INITDB?

2004-08-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
Patch to throw an error if -L is not an abolute path attached and applied. --- Josh Berkus wrote: > 8.0 beta CVS of 8/8/2004: > > If a relative path is used for the -L option in initdb, the following fatal > error happens: