"Simon Riggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm pretty sure most people don't move live postmasters very frequently, > plus it isn't clear to me why we should support the people that want > that to do that, yet not the people who want the absolute-path option.
As already discussed upthread, anyone who wants the path can get it from `pwd` or local equivalent --- and that mechanism is robust (as long as the directory move doesn't happen while any particular instance of the script is running). I don't see why we should go out of our way to provide a bad substitute for pwd. BTW, I note that some post-startup uses of DataDir have crept back in, in places like utils/adt/dbsize.c. I'll be sure to clean those up before release... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings