I think we can safely say that it is not :-)
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Dunstan [mailto:andrew@dunslane.net]
Sent: 03 March 2006 15:41
To: Magnus Hagander
Cc: Hughes, James; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Initdb on Windows 2003
Magnus Hagander wrote:
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>>Have raised a helpdesk ticket with Microsoft, see if they can shed any
>>light on the problem.
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>Sounds good - since you can reproduce it with a simple commandline,
>they should at least accept touching the case ;-)
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In any case, since dir > nul fails, I think we can probably say it's Not
Our Problem (tm).
We've used nul on Windows ever since initdb was written in C.
cheers
andrew