diff --git a/pgxn/neon/communicator/src/lib.rs b/pgxn/neon/communicator/src/lib.rs
index 84e7038842..d0c5b758da 100644
--- a/pgxn/neon/communicator/src/lib.rs
+++ b/pgxn/neon/communicator/src/lib.rs
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 //! - async tokio communicator core, which receives requests and processes them.
 //! - Main loop and requests queues, which routes requests from backends to the core
 //! - the per-backend glue code, which submits requests
-#![warn(unused)]
 
 mod backend_comms;
 
diff --git a/pgxn/neon/communicator_new.c b/pgxn/neon/communicator_new.c
index 9cceafba2f..8b2fc258ee 100644
--- a/pgxn/neon/communicator_new.c
+++ b/pgxn/neon/communicator_new.c
@@ -178,32 +178,6 @@ assign_request_id(void)
 	return result;
 }
 
-/*
- * Returns the absolute path to the given path.
-*/
-static inline char * get_absolute_path(const char *path)
-{
-	char *abs_path = bounce_buf();
-	char cwd[PATH_MAX];
-	int size = 0;
-
-	if (path[0] == '/') {
-		strncpy(abs_path, path, strlen(path));
-		return abs_path;
-	}
-
-	getcwd(cwd, sizeof(cwd));
-
-	size = snprintf(NULL, 0, "%s/%s", cwd, path);
-
-	if (size < 0 || size >= PATH_MAX) {
-		return NULL;
-	}
-
-	snprintf(abs_path, size + 1, "%s/%s", cwd, path);
-	return abs_path;
-}
-
 /**** Initialization functions. These run in postmaster ****/
 
 void
@@ -1041,13 +1015,15 @@ communicator_new_read_slru_segment(
 		}
 	};
 	int nblocks = -1;
+	char *abs_path = bounce_buf();
 
 	if (path == NULL) {
 		elog(ERROR, "read_slru_segment called with NULL path");
 		return -1;
 	}
 
-	request.read_slru_segment.destination_file_path.ptr = (uint8_t *) get_absolute_path(path);
+	strlcpy(abs_path, path, Min(PATH_MAX, strlen(path) + 1));
+	request.read_slru_segment.destination_file_path.ptr = (uint8_t *) abs_path;
 
 	elog(DEBUG5, "readslrusegment called for kind=%u, segno=%u, file_path=\"%s\"",
 		kind, segno, request.read_slru_segment.destination_file_path.ptr);