get_progname and .exe suffix

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: get_progname and .exe suffix
Date: 2004-10-15 14:06:54
Message-ID: 416FD97E.8050906@dunslane.net
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My original code for initdb stripped the .exe suffix off the progname
stored, in this snippet of code:

carg0 = xstrdup(argv[0]);
canonicalise_path(carg0);

lastsep = strrchr(carg0, *'/'*);
progname = lastsep ? xstrdup(lastsep + 1) : carg0;

#*if* *defined*(__CYGWIN__) || *defined*(WIN32)
*if* (strlen(progname) > 4 &&
(exe = progname + (strlen(progname) - 4)) &&
stricmp(exe, EXE) == 0)
{
//* strip .exe suffix, regardless of case *//
*exe = *'\0'*;
}
#*endif* //* defined(__CYGWIN__) || defined(WIN32) */

Somewhere along the way, probably when we moved to using a generalised get_progname(), that seems to have been lost. Not only is keeping the .exe suffix ugly, but it breaks the contrib installcheck regression tests on windows (hasn't anyone run these?)

A simple fix for this last problem would be to put some similar code to the above into psql, but something cleaner and applicable to all users of get_progname might be nicer.

Thoughts?

andrew

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