Thank you.
Perhaps this should be added to the TODO list? New section specifically for issues related to this?
Mike
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 01:54:56PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Mike G." <mike@thegodshalls.com> writes:
> > On the non windows platforms you can issue the copy statement and the file path syntax is exactly the same as if
youwere changing directories in a shell. No special escaping or syntax is needed.
> > It would be nice if the same could be done for those forced to use windows.
>
> Well, that's one reason why we are migrating towards backslashes not
> being special in strings. It's going to take awhile to get there,
> though, because we can't just change it without a lot of advance notice.
> There are too many programs that would break.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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