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Re: [PATCH] Prefer getenv("HOME") to find the UNIX home directory

Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>

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From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>, alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2022-01-09T21:26:28Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Sun, Jan 09, 2022 at 01:59:02PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Given the POSIX requirements, it's basically impossible to believe
> that there are interesting cases where $HOME isn't set.

I've run into this before - children of init may not have HOME set.

It's easy enough to add it if it's needed, but should probably be called out in
the release notes.

-- 
Justin

Commits

  1. Clean up messy API for src/port/thread.c.

  2. Prefer $HOME when looking up the current user's home directory.