Re: PITR on Win32 - Archive and Restore

OK, I would like to get a 100% solution here.  The change of / to \
really only handles part of our problem, and doesn't deal with
directories with spaces like "Program Files".

We need a 100% solution for Win32 for this.  I know we have been around
with the quote test but we need to keep going.  initdb and pg_ctl had
similar problems but we got it working 100% after some effort, and we
need to do the same here.

OK, as a data point, why does this work on XP using a CMD.EXE window:

    C:\Program Files>echo > "a b"

    C:\Program Files>copy "a b" "c d"
            1 file(s) copied.

    C:\Program Files>copy "c:/program files/c d" "e f"
            1 file(s) copied.

    C:\Program Files>copy "c:/program files/e f" "c:/program files/g h"
            1 file(s) copied.

    C:\Program Files>cmd /c copy "c:/program files/e f" "c:/program files/g h"
            1 file(s) copied.

I don't think we actually need the backslash conversion.  I do think we will end
up with a different GUC value for WIN32 PITR logging.

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markir@coretech.co.nz wrote:
> Funny thing is, now that the "%p" is silently using '\', the "target" path can
> use '/':
>
> e.g :
>
> archive_command = 'copy "%p" "c:/databases/pgarchive/%f"'
>
> *now* works fine. The next interesting question will be "can I use '/' in the
> restore_command too?". I will have a muddle around with it.
>
> regards
>
> Mark
>
> Quoting markir@coretech.co.nz:
>
> > I agree, the approach seems quite nice.
> >
> > I gave the lastest cvs a go  - which is probably cvs as of about 2 hours ago,
> > as
> > a mingw build takes 55 minutes on this machine (compare to 6 minutes when
> > booted into Freebsd... ah well..)
> >
> >
> > Initially tried :
> >
> > archive_command = 'copy "%p" "c:\databases\pgarchive\%f"'
> >
> > But saw errors in the log about "c:databasespgarchive00000..."
> >
> > Looks like '\' needs to be escaped, confirmed this with :
> >
> >
> > archive_command = 'copy "%p" "c:\\databases\\pgarchive\\%f"'
> >
> > Which worked fine. However, it would be nice if the '\' inside the '"' were
> > 'auto-escaped' somehow, as I suspect Mr 'used-windows-all-my-life' will find
> > the current behaviour counter-intuitive.
> >
> > Otherwise looks good
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >
> > Quoting Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>:
> >
> > > Tom Lane said:
> > > > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > > >> I have gotten confused by this.  Does COPY work with quoted paths only
> > > >> if we use forward slashes, or was this fix just for the slash issue
> > > >> and not spaces?
> > > >
> > > > This only fixes the slash issue.  If your database path includes spaces
> > > > you'll still need to put quotes in the archive_command, but it
> > > > shouldn't be any worse than
> > > >     archive_command = 'copy "%p" "c:\someplace\%f"'
> > > >
> > > > I'd appreciate confirmation though from some win32 users that the above
> > > > indeed works.
> > > >
> > >
> > > That's what my experimentation showed, although I worked with a tiny test.c
> > > file rather than the archive command. I think this is the right solution -
> > > the user should put the quotes in, not postgres.
> > >
> > > cheers
> > >
> > > andrew
> > >
> > >
> > >
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