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Re: file_fdw vs relative paths

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Li Japin <japinli@hotmail.com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-08-31T15:03:45Z
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On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 01:16:05PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>     Bruce, I've applied and backpatched your docs patch for this.
> 
> Gah, and of course right after doing that, I remembered I wanted to get a
> second change in :) To solve the "who's this Josh" question, I suggest we also
> change the example to point to the data/log directory which is likely to exist
> in a lot more of the cases. I keep getting people who ask "who is josh" based
> on the /home/josh path. Not that it's that important, but... 

Thanks, and agreed.

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  Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>        https://momjian.us
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Commits

  1. Change path in example of file_fdw for logs

  2. Fix docs bug stating file_fdw requires absolute paths

  3. Add contrib/file_fdw foreign-data wrapper for reading files via COPY.