Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 15:56, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> I think the proposal for such a switch is unnecessary lily-gilding,
> Hmm. What we could do is have pg_ctl chdir() into the data directory > on start. See above. You're solving a problem that probably doesn't exist, and introducing a pile of new ones in the process --- for example, this will break commands that use relative paths for either the postmaster executable or the data directory itself. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers