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Re: pidfile location missing after restarting crashed server in 8.1


  • From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
  • To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
  • Cc: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: pidfile location missing after restarting crashed server in 8.1
  • Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:39:37 -0400
  • Message-id: <10859(dot)1130355577(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yeah: it's now being accessed by a relative path (relative to $PGDATA,
>> which we have already chdir'd into at this point).

> So we should include PGDATA in the error message (DataDir actually, I
> guess).

I don't think that follows.  The code prints exactly the path name it's
using to access the file, and I think that's exactly what it should
print.  Are we going to editorialize similarly on every other message
that includes a file name?

			regards, tom lane



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