| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, nicolas(at)marchildon(dot)net, Bugs for PostgreSQL <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: BUG #8139: initdb: Misleading error message when current user not in /etc/passwd |
| Date: | 2014-01-07 21:40:14 |
| Message-ID: | 20140107214013.GG6840@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 10:46:43AM -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > On 12/9/13, 7:47 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > >> Not clear whether the new file should be in src/port or src/common.
> > > Agreed. It isn't designed to add missing OS functionality, but it is
> > > mostly OS-specific code.
> >
> > It's not for portability, though, is it?
>
> Well, neither is sprompt.c, but that has a lot of port-specific code in
> it, so I used that as a guide.
src/common was created much later than sprompt.c was written. I would
have thought that the consideration would have been that sprompt.c
should eventually be moved to src/common; not that it would serve as a
precedent for anything.
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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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