On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 5:04 AM Peter Eisentraut
<peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> The archeology reveals that these calls where originally added to
> canonicalize the data_directory and config_file settings (7b0f060d54),
> but that was then moved out of guc.c to be done early during postmaster
> startup (337ffcddba). The remaining calls of check_canonical_path() in
> guc.c appear to be leftovers from a previous regime.
Thanks for looking into it. Sounds like it can just be ripped out,
then, unless someone knows of a reason to do otherwise.
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