On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> In general, I think there is no excuse for code in the backend to use
>>> readdir() directly; it should be using ReadDir(), which takes care of this
>>> as well as error reporting.
>
>> My understanding is that the fd.c infrastructure can't be used in the
>> postmaster.
>
> Say what? See ParseConfigDirectory for code that certainly runs in the
> postmaster, and uses ReadDir().
Gosh, I could have sworn that I had calls into fd.c that were crashing
and burning during development because they happened too early in
postmaster startup. But it seems to work fine now, so I've pushed a
fix for this and a few related issues. Please let me know if you
think there are remaining issues.
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Robert Haas
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