Bruce Momjian wrote:
>Tom Lane wrote:
>
>
>>"Luiz K. Matsumura" <luiz@planit.com.br> writes:
>>
>>
>>>I modified pg_dumpall.c lines between 160 and 270 to add a #ifndef
>>>WIN32... #endif clause to pgdumpopts to store
>>>the parameters with double quotations intead simple quotation marks in
>>>case of WIN32 ports
>>>
>>>
>>This seems unnecessarily ugly. Why not just go over to double quotes?
>>
>>
>
>The patch was actually posted backward so maybe it wasn't clear but the
>change is to use double quotes instead of single quotes for Win32
>arguments just like we do in other cases in pg_dumpall.c.
>
>Single quotes do not behave the same as single quotes in the WIn32
>CMD.EXES processor. For example, DIR "" and DIR '' produce different
>results.
>
>
Yes, but wasn't Tom's point that we could use double quotes on Unix too?
That makes sense to me unless we expect some horrible interpolation effects.
cheers
andrew