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Improve error reporting when location specified by postgres -D does not exist

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Previously, the first error seen would be that postgresql.conf does not
exist.  But for the case where the whole directory does not exist, give
an error message about that, together with a hint for how to create one.
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Peter Eisentraut 2015-11-17 06:47:18 -05:00
parent 2808a2e0f3
commit ac7238dc0f
1 changed files with 12 additions and 1 deletions
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src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
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@ -4463,6 +4463,17 @@ SelectConfigFiles(const char *userDoption, const char *progname)
else
configdir = make_absolute_path(getenv("PGDATA"));
if (configdir && stat(configdir, &stat_buf) != 0)
{
write_stderr("%s: could not access \"%s\": %s\n",
progname,
configdir,
strerror(errno));
if (errno == ENOENT)
write_stderr("Run initdb or pg_basebackup to initialize a PostgreSQL data directory.\n");
return false;
}
/*
* Find the configuration file: if config_file was specified on the
* command line, use it, else use configdir/postgresql.conf. In any case
@ -4498,7 +4509,7 @@ SelectConfigFiles(const char *userDoption, const char *progname)
*/
if (stat(ConfigFileName, &stat_buf) != 0)
{
write_stderr("%s cannot access the server configuration file \"%s\": %s\n",
write_stderr("%s: could not access the server configuration file \"%s\": %s\n",
progname, ConfigFileName, strerror(errno));
free(configdir);
return false;