Re: Isn't win32_make_absolute() a waste of

At the time this was included in initdb.c, if you called initdb like
this: "bin/initdb" then the path to postgres ended up being determined
as "bin/postgres". This function was put in to get around a problem
Windows had in certain cases with such relative paths. That code path
has now changed so radically that you might be right in thinking it
redundant - I will have a closer look unless Bruce can give a
categorical answer.

cheers

andrew

Tom Lane wrote:

>AFAICS, src/port/exec.c's win32_make_absolute() is never called with
>a relative path. Is there a reason not to remove it (ie, does it do
>something beyond what the comments claim)?
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