On 2020-05-20 09:13, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 01:02:12PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> That thread didn't resolve why check_canonical_path() is necessary there.
>> Maybe the existing uses could be removed?
>
> This would impact log_directory, external_pid_file,
> stats_temp_directory, where it is still useful to show to the user
> cleaned up names, no? See for example 2594cf0.
I don't understand why we need to alter the file names specified by the
user. They presumably wrote them that way for a reason and they
probably like them that way.
There are specific situations where we need to do that to know whether a
path is in the data directory or the same as some other one etc. But
unless there is a reason like that, I think we should just leave them.
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