Re: [HACKERS] Bug in WAL backup documentation

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de> writes:
> Since 8.1 has done this all along and no one's actually complained about
> it, I guess no one is using scripts that do "cd".  I'm inclined to go
> with Bernd's suggestion to change the docs to match the code, but does
> anyone have a contrary opinion?

I think supplying the absolute path makes archiving scripts less 
error-prone, which is a good time. So I'd vote for absolute paths.

greetings, Florian Pflug