Andrew - Supernews <andrew+nonews@supernews.com> writes:
> That only helps if you can trust %p not to contain whitespace or $. If it
> is always relative to somewhere in the data dir then this is probably ok,
> but if it's an absolute path then you can't assume that.
It is relative, so I think this is actually not a problem. Still, we
ought to make the lexical structure the same as it is in postgresql.conf.
regards, tom lane