Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
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> >Patch to throw an error if -L is not an abolute path attached and
> >applied.
> >
> >
>
>
> Why are we placing this restriction? What Josh tried to do seems
> perfectly reasonable to me. Rather I would ask why we changed the
> description-loading routine in version 1.7 of initdb.c to use a copy
> from file instead of what happens everywhere else where initdb loads the
> file and feeds it to the postgres stdin? And if we want to keep doing
> that rather than being consistent with the rest of initdb, can't we just
> make sure we make the path absolute?
I am fine with that if someone wants to code it. I just did the minimal
to prevent strange failures.
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