Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 15:56, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I think the proposal for such a switch is unnecessary lily-gilding,
> Hmm. What we could do is have pg_ctl chdir() into the data directory
> on start.
See above. You're solving a problem that probably doesn't exist,
and introducing a pile of new ones in the process --- for example,
this will break commands that use relative paths for either the
postmaster executable or the data directory itself.
regards, tom lane
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