Not if you pass it to the Windows shell via system() or popen() - then
forward slashed paths need to be quoted. It's only the libraries that
understand forward slashes as God intended.
cheers
andrew
Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> hmmm... I was under that impression too, and was a bit surprised when
> it *seemed* not to....I will go and check again - just in case some
> user error leaked in :-)
>
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> markir@coretech.co.nz writes:
>>
>>
>>> There is a bit of a trap if using '%p' in archive_command - it has
>>> seperators
>>> like '/' instead of '\', so does not work for some windows commands
>>> (like
>>> 'copy' for instance).
>>>
>>
>>
>> I was under the impression that forward slashes would work fine, as long
>> as you used them consistently?
>>
>