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Re: file_fdw vs relative paths

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>

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From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Li Japin <japinli@hotmail.com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-09-06T17:31:08Z
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On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 5:03 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
Thanks, applied. I backpacked to 13 but didn't bother with the rest as it's
not technically *wrong* before..

//Magnus

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.