From 455b8887cf79dc4d4b5fea0cf65f56f316baaaa2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:23:24 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fix pg_resetxlog to use correct path to postmaster.pid.

Since we've already chdir'd into the data directory, the file should
be referenced as just "postmaster.pid", without prefixing the directory
path.  This is harmless in the normal case where an absolute PGDATA path
is used, but quite dangerous if a relative path is specified, since the
program might then fail to notice an active postmaster.

Reported by Hari Babu.  This got broken in my commit
eb5949d190e80360386113fde0f05854f0c9824d, so patch all active versions.
---
 src/bin/pg_resetxlog/pg_resetxlog.c | 10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/bin/pg_resetxlog/pg_resetxlog.c b/src/bin/pg_resetxlog/pg_resetxlog.c
index d5d89ec3ad7..3d9a6698b39 100644
--- a/src/bin/pg_resetxlog/pg_resetxlog.c
+++ b/src/bin/pg_resetxlog/pg_resetxlog.c
@@ -91,7 +91,6 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	char	   *endptr;
 	char	   *DataDir;
 	int			fd;
-	char		path[MAXPGPATH];
 
 	set_pglocale_pgservice(argv[0], PG_TEXTDOMAIN("pg_resetxlog"));
 
@@ -252,13 +251,12 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	 * Check for a postmaster lock file --- if there is one, refuse to
 	 * proceed, on grounds we might be interfering with a live installation.
 	 */
-	snprintf(path, MAXPGPATH, "%s/postmaster.pid", DataDir);
-
-	if ((fd = open(path, O_RDONLY, 0)) < 0)
+	if ((fd = open("postmaster.pid", O_RDONLY, 0)) < 0)
 	{
 		if (errno != ENOENT)
 		{
-			fprintf(stderr, _("%s: could not open file \"%s\" for reading: %s\n"), progname, path, strerror(errno));
+			fprintf(stderr, _("%s: could not open file \"%s\" for reading: %s\n"),
+					progname, "postmaster.pid", strerror(errno));
 			exit(1);
 		}
 	}
@@ -266,7 +264,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	{
 		fprintf(stderr, _("%s: lock file \"%s\" exists\n"
 						  "Is a server running?  If not, delete the lock file and try again.\n"),
-				progname, path);
+				progname, "postmaster.pid");
 		exit(1);
 	}
 
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