Re: get_progname and .exe suffix

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> What would break if we caused get_progname itself to strip the suffix?

> Yes. get_progname() actually just returns a pointer to one past the last 
> directory separator it finds in its argument string. Having it strip the 
> .exe directly would in effect involve mangling argv[0]. That's what 
> makes me slightly nervous about it. We could have it strdup() the result 
> and then mangle that - note that it is called by postmaster before we 
> set up any memory context stuff.

Seems reasonable.  What I was more worried about though was whether
there are any callers that actually need a non-stripped result.

			regards, tom lane