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-rw-r--r--src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 066e0283a11..930f602b183 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2008, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c,v 1.5 2008/07/04 10:50:18 mha Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c,v 1.6 2008/10/30 17:04:09 mha Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -57,7 +57,13 @@ GetSharedMemName(void)
elog(FATAL, "could not generate full pathname for datadir %s: %lu",
DataDir, GetLastError());
- for (cp = retptr + 18; *cp; cp++)
+ /*
+ * XXX: Intentionally overwriting the Global\ part here. This was not the
+ * original approach, but putting it in the actual Global\ namespace
+ * causes permission errors in a lot of cases, so we leave it in
+ * the default namespace for now.
+ */
+ for (cp = retptr; *cp; cp++)
if (*cp == '\\')
*cp = '/';