Re: [HACKERS] Win32 sysconfig -> pg_service.conf

Bruce Momjian wrote:

>Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>>Bruce Momjian said:
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>>>On Win32, patch applied to return path if GetShortPathName() fails (no
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>>short name, path does not exist), rather than returning nothing.
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>>What made you choose this rather than GetFullPathName?
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>Sure, we can do that.  Does GetFullPathName() work if the path does not
>exist?
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yes. see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/getfullpathname.asp

> How is it different from the path we pass to it?  Aren't all
>those paths full already?
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If they are then it probably doesn't matter.

cheers

andrew