On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 02:50:02AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Noah Misch <n...@leadboat.com> writes: > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 10:21:50AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > >> I believe that we deal with this by the expedient of checking the lengths > >> of tablespace paths in advance, when the tablespace is created. > > > The files under scrutiny here are not located in a tablespace. Even if they > > were, isn't the length of $PGDATA/pg_tblspc the important factor? > > The length of $PGDATA is of no relevance whatsoever; we chdir into that > directory at startup, and subsequently all paths are implicitly relative > to there. If there is any backend code that's prepending $PGDATA to > something else, it's wrong to start with.
Ah; quite right. -- Noah Misch EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
