On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Tom Lane <t...@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. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
