Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> There is another possible answer, and it's something I've been
>> meaning to bring up for awhile. Is there a good reason why
>> postmaster is a symlink to postgres, rather than a hard link?
> I don't know of one. Something I have
Tom Lane wrote:
> find_my_exec is not misbehaving: it's designed to expand symlinks,
> and would in fact be pretty useless if it did not.
I don't want to contest that in certain cases this is required but I can
easily come up with scenarios (which perhaps no PostgreSQL user has
encountered yet)
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Earlier, CreateOptsFile was called with argv, now it's passed the result of
> find_my_exec instead. I'm not sure whether that change was wrong to begin
> with or whether find_my_exec is mishaving (it should return something
> containing "postmaster
Since 8.0, postmaster.opts has been containing .../bin/postgres even though
the postmaster was started. This was evidently broken by some
Windows-related reshuffling.
Earlier, CreateOptsFile was called with argv, now it's passed the result of
find_my_exec instead. I'm not sure whether that ch
