Re: Strange code in initdb

I have modified these reports so they print the full path used.

Typical pg_dumpall output is:

The program "pg_dump" is needed by pg_dumpall but was not found in the
same directory as "/usr/local/postgres/bin/pg_dumpall".
Check your installation.

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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> What is this trying to tell us?
>
> if (ret == -1)
> fprintf(stderr,
> _("The program \"postgres\" is needed by %s "
> "but was not found in the same directory as \"%s\".\n"
> "Check your installation.\n"),
> progname, progname);
> else
> fprintf(stderr,
> _("The program \"postgres\" was found by %s "
> "but was not the same version as \"%s\".\n"
> "Check your installation.\n"),
> progname, progname);
>
> Shouldn't the second progname be argv[0] or something else that contains
> the full path?
>
> --
> Peter Eisentraut
> http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
>
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