The following patch makes postmaster -D work. -D specifies a different PGDATA

directory.  The code that looks for the pg_hba file doesn't use it, though,
so the postmaster uses the wrong pg_hba file.  Also, when the postmaster
looks in one directory and the user thinks it is looking in another
directory, the error messages don't give enough information to solve the
problem.  I extended the error message for this.


Submitted by: Bryan Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>

Author: scrappy

src/backend/libpq/auth.c

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *    $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/libpq/auth.c,v 1.1.1.1 1996/07/09 06:21:30 scrappy Exp $
+ *    $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/libpq/auth.c,v 1.2 1996/08/14 04:51:02 scrappy Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -403,11 +403,8 @@ hba_recvauth(struct sockaddr_in *addr, PacketBuf *pbuf, StartupInfo *sp)
     char *conf_file;
 
     /* put together the full pathname to the config file */
-    conf_file = (char *) malloc((strlen(GetPGData())+strlen(CONF_FILE)+2)*sizeof(char));
-    strcpy(conf_file, GetPGData());
-    strcat(conf_file, "/");
-    strcat(conf_file, CONF_FILE);
-    
+    conf_file = (char *) malloc((strlen(DataDir)+strlen(CONF_FILE)+2)*sizeof(char));
+    sprintf(conf_file, "%s/%s", DataDir, CONF_FILE);
 
     /* Open the config file. */
     file = fopen(conf_file, "r");
@@ -463,7 +460,10 @@ hba_recvauth(struct sockaddr_in *addr, PacketBuf *pbuf, StartupInfo *sp)
     }
     else 
     {  (void) sprintf(PQerrormsg,
-			   "hba_recvauth: config file does not exist or permissions are not setup correctly!\n");
+                      "hba_recvauth: Host-based authentication config file "
+                      "does not exist or permissions are not setup correctly! "
+                      "Unable to open file \"%s\".\n", 
+                      conf_file);
 	    fputs(PQerrormsg, stderr);
 	    pqdebug("%s", PQerrormsg);
 	free(conf_file);

src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *    $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c,v 1.4 1996/08/06 16:43:24 scrappy Exp $
+ *    $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c,v 1.5 1996/08/14 04:51:34 scrappy Exp $
  *
  * NOTES
  *
@@ -1110,8 +1110,10 @@ checkDataDir()
     sprintf(path, "%s%cbase%ctemplate1%cpg_class", DataDir, SEP_CHAR, SEP_CHAR,
 	    SEP_CHAR);
     if ((fp=fopen(path, "r")) == NULL) {
-	fprintf(stderr, "%s: data base not found in directory \"%s\"\n",
-		progname, DataDir);
+        fprintf(stderr, "%s does not find the database.  Expected to find it "
+                "in the PGDATA directory \"%s\", but unable to open directory "
+                "with pathname \"%s\".\n", 
+                progname, DataDir, path);
 	exit(2);
     }
     fclose(fp);