Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/src backend/main/main.c b ackend/p

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Claudio Natoli wrote:
> >> There's also the possibility of adding it to read/write_backend_variables,
> >> just as we add other variables for fork/exec that we want the backends to
> >> inherit.
>
> > In the exec case, the executable name is actually different from the
> > postmaster, so passing it doesn't make sense.
>
> How much do we care?  AFAIK we only really care about the directory part
> of the path, no?  There are ports that need the exact executable
> pathname for dynamic loading purposes, but I'd think Windows is not one
> of them.

Agreed, but I figured we should be accurate if we can.  For fork-only,
our binary is postmaster, while for fork/exec, it is postgres.

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