Re: pg_basebackup vs. Windows and tablespaces

On 12/16/2014 06:30 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> I'm not clear why human readability is the major criterion here. As for
> that, it will be quite difficult for a human to distinguish a name with
> a space at the end from one without. I really think a simple encoding
> scheme would be much the best. For normal cases it will preserve
> readability completely, and for special cases it will preserve lack of
> any ambiguity.

Agreed. Besides, this:

16387 E:\\Program\ Files\\PostgreSQL\\tbs

is almost as human-readable as this:

16387 E:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\tbs

It's obvious how the escaping works, just by looking at the file.

- Heikki