Re: dynamic_library_path on Win32

Tom Lane wrote:

>"Thomas Hallgren" <thhal@mailblocks.com> writes:
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>>I'm using CVS HEAD in a windows environment. I'm trying to start the
>>postmaster using "postmaster -c dynamic_library_path=C:/foo/bar". It starts
>>just fine, then, when I ask it to load a module, an error is generating
>>stating:
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>>ERROR: component in parameter "dynamic_library_path" is not an absolute path
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>>I added a trace to find out what it thinks the path is. It prints "C".
>>Obviously it treats ':' as a path separator somewhere.
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>Yeah.  dynamic_library_path follows the universal Unix convention that
>search path components are separated by ':'.  Is there any equivalent
>convention in Windows?
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src/port/exec.c has this:


#ifdef WIN32
#define PATHSEP ';'
#else
#define PATHSEP ':'
#endif

It should probably move to c.h.

cheers

andrew