Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > Starting postgres with a CWD that's not readable will trigger an Assert > and if those are disabled it presumably will segfault.
Yeah, we've discussed that before. I'm not sure it's worth fixing, or that it could be counted on to stay fixed even if we removed the current source(s) of trouble. There's a bigger problem with the scenario you show, which is that the postmaster is started with root's environment variables not postgres'. That's likely to lead to assorted surprises that we can't really do anything about, even if we fixed the CWD issue. So I'm inclined to think this scenario is a "don't do that". Having said that, though, it seems like a bad idea to be calling set_pglocale_pgservice() before palloc is functional. It's not at all obvious that that function can't be allowed to use palloc. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs