Re: Specifying xlog directory during initdb is failing

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)CommandPrompt(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Specifying xlog directory during initdb is failing
Date: 2008-06-02 05:16:52
Message-ID: 3285.1212383812@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Devrim =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=DCND=DCZ?= <devrim(at)CommandPrompt(dot)com> writes:
> On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 22:27 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think the simplest solution is to reject non-absolute path for -X;
>> is there any real use-case for allowing it?

> I don't think so.

> Thanks for the patch -- could you please update docs (and man page) as
> well? There are no words regarding using absolute path there, AFAICS.

Don't you think the error message will be sufficient?

regards, tom lane

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