Allow external recovery_config_directory

If required, recovery.conf can now be located outside of the data directory.
Server needs read/write permissions on this directory.

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c b/src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c
index 24ca97d55c7..3d48eb8c9d3 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c
@@ -100,6 +100,25 @@ SetDataDir(const char *dir)
 }
 
 /*
+ * Set recovery config directory, but make sure it's an absolute path.  Use this,
+ * never set RecoveryConfDir directly.
+ */
+void
+SetRecoveryConfDir(const char *dir)
+{
+	char	   *new;
+
+	AssertArg(dir);
+
+	/* If presented path is relative, convert to absolute */
+	new = make_absolute_path(dir);
+
+	if (RecoveryConfDir)
+		free(RecoveryConfDir);
+	RecoveryConfDir = new;
+}
+
+/*
  * Change working directory to DataDir.  Most of the postmaster and backend
  * code assumes that we are in DataDir so it can use relative paths to access
  * stuff in and under the data directory.  For convenience during path