Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 3:57 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> We might forget to use the wrapper function too, if it has a nonstandard
>> name, no? A better idea would be to redefine popen() and system() on
>> Windows. It looks like we're already using a #define to redefine popen().
> Won't defining variant of popen just for Windows to add SYSTEMQUOTE
> effect such (where currently it is used for both win and non-winows)
> usage? Also, I think we might want to remove use of SYSTEMQUOTE
> before popen calls where ever it is currently used to avoid usage of the
> same two times.
Well, yeah: the point would be to remove SYSTEMQUOTE altogether,
probably. Certainly the idea I'm suggesting is that we don't need any
Windows-specific notation at the call sites.
regards, tom lane