| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Gurjeet Singh <gurjeet(at)singh(dot)im>, Postgres Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pg_regress: lookup shellprog in $PATH |
| Date: | 2022-08-25 15:04:35 |
| Message-ID: | CA+Tgmoa7+X=sO_0jJkzO7RvEnA_C4hj_zV79yxMYdaSERf0eXQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 10:48 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> If we were executing a program that the user needs to have some control
> over, sure, but what we have here is an implementation detail that I
> doubt anyone cares about. The fact that we're using a shell at all is
> only because nobody has cared to manually implement I/O redirection logic
> in these places; otherwise we'd be execl()'ing the server or psql directly.
> Maybe the best answer would be to do that, and get out of the business
> of knowing where the shell is?
Well that also would not be crazy.
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Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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