Re: PITR on Win32 - Archive and Restore

Guys,

did you notice my earlier CopyFile / CopyFileEx posting (at about 10:20
German time) ?
If you want to stick with an external copy executable (which I don't quite
understand), just go and write one yourself and provide it for Windows
users. Leaving aside the neccessary checks, it might be as simple as:

#include <windows.h>
int main(char* args[]) {
  return CopyFile(args[0],args[1],TRUE);
}

Adding a proprietary parser for secure handling of quotes (to deal of paths
containing space)s should be simple, I'm sure you have adequate functions in
your Postgres library. Link it to a file called copy.exe or cp.exe or
wahtever and add it to the PGBIN directory.

Cheers,
Christian.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Merlin Moncure" <merlin.moncure@rcsonline.com>
To: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers-win32@postgresql.org>; "Simon Riggs"
<simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] PITR on Win32 - Archive and Restore


>
> I don't think that's workable unless we intend to distribute it.
Gary's
> suggestion of using xcopy is probably a good one.
>
> I will install MSys and friends on my new Windows machine and play
> around to see what works, unless someone comes up with a tested
solution
> first.

You know, it might be nice to have the inserted path be set up with
slashes dependant on the OS type.  Or, perhaps an alternate set of
macros in the archive string to reverse the slashes.   Forcing people to
use xcopy or cp will cause problems in various scenarios.

Merlin



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