Path expansion in initdb

Peter Eisentraut wrote:

It used to be that calling

initdb -D /some/where

suggested starting

postmaster -D /some/where

and

./mydir/bin/initdb -D ./mydir/var/data

suggested starting

./mydir/bin/postmaster -D ./mydir/var/data

In the current sources, the path to the postmaster is fully expanded in
either case (resulting in something like
/home/peter/./mydir/bin/postmaster in the second case). (Curiously,
the data directory path is not changed.) I don't find this to be an
improvement. Is there a reason for this change?

I have applied the following patch to address your concerns. We needed
this anyway because we were not using native paths in the display.

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