Claudio Natoli wrote:
>>To the best of my knowledge, only the command processor cares about
>>this, and you can get around it by quoting the command - see
>>my initdb.c for examples. (this is also why I pass PGDATA via the
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>environment and
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>>never via the command line - the Windows command processor is
>>quite dumb about multiple quoted strings). AFAIK direct library calls
>>like stat() or fopen() should accept forward slashes. It may be that
>>libraries other than MSVCRT act differently, although that would be very
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>odd,
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>>even for M$.
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>They will, as long as there isn't a mix of forward and backward slashes,
>which is currently the case in the backend code. Either canonicalize on
>forward, or #define out backslashes in Win32. In either case, it is an
>outstanding TODO item for postgres under win32.
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Right. FWIW, I found canonicalization by far the simpler approach -
which I adopted after tying myself in knots doing things the other way.
cheers
andrew