Re: pidfile location missing after restarting crashed server in 8.1

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yeah: it's now being accessed by a relative path (relative to $PGDATA,
>> which we have already chdir'd into at this point).

> So we should include PGDATA in the error message (DataDir actually, I
> guess).

I don't think that follows.  The code prints exactly the path name it's
using to access the file, and I think that's exactly what it should
print.  Are we going to editorialize similarly on every other message
that includes a file name?
        regards, tom lane