Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/src backend/main/main.c backend/p

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > OK, I moved the find_my_exec calls to the locations you mentioned in
> > both postgres.c and postmaster.c and remove it from main.c.  I tested
> > the elog and it worked.
>
> You omitted get_pkglib_path() from the postmaster case; was that
> intentional?

Got it later.  Thanks.

> Also, in the non-exec case it seems unnecessary and possibly unsafe to
> repeat this computation in a backend.  It should inherit the settings
> from the postmaster via fork(), I'd think.  So possibly
>
> #ifndef EXEC_BACKEND
>     if (!IsUnderPostmaster)
> #endif
>     {
>         find_my_exec(...);
>         get_pkglib_path(...);
>     }

Thanks.  It originally was as below and I forgot about that.  It now is:

    if (my_exec_path[0] == '\0' && find_my_exec(argv[0], my_exec_path) < 0)

The issue is that fork/exec will need to set it too.

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