Re: is_absolute_path incorrect on Windows

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Giles Lean <giles.lean@pobox.com>, Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-06-01T22:34:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Hm.  Neither of these obviously exclude the case of an absolute path
>> that happens to lead to cwd.  I'm not sure how important that is,
>> but still ...

> We currently do that with path_is_prefix_of_path().  Maybe that needs to
> be called as well.

I think you misunderstood my point: in the places where we're insisting
on a relative path, I don't think we *want* an absolute path to be
accepted.  What I was trying to say is that these proposed function
names don't obviously mean "a relative path that does not try to
break out of cwd".

			regards, tom lane