Re: odd output in restore mode

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>   
>> Another and probably simpler thing to try would be the GnuWin32 version  
>> of cp. If we can verify that it behaves itself, we should probably  
>> recommend it for use in archive_command instead of the native Windows 
>> copy.
>>     
>
> Perhaps use xcopy, which should be more ubiquitous?
>
>   

I would be very surprised if xcopy did not exhibit the same 
preallocating behaviour as copy.

cheers

andrew