On 2019-09-05 01:59, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 02:37:12PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>>> Do we need set_pglocale_pgservice() calls here if we're not doing NLS?
>>>> Does the logging stuff require it? I'm not sure.
>>>
>>> The logging part does not require it, but this can be used for
>>> PGSYSCONFDIR, no?
>>
>> How does PGSYSCONFDIR come into play here?
>
> There is an argument to allow libpq to find out a service file for
> a connection from the executable path. Note that oid2name can use a
> connection string for connection, but not vacuumlo, so I somewhat
> missed that.
Oh I see what's going on. PGSYSCONFDIR is used by libpq, and
set_pglocale_pgservice() does some path mangling on PGSYSCONFDIR if set
for Windows. Shouldn't libpq do that itself? Worth looking into but
probably unrelated to your patch.
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