Re: 25.3. Continuous Archiving : Unix examples with Windows-stylevariables %-$

Hi,

> On Aug 23, 2018, at 5:54 AM, PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org> wrote:
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> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
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> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/continuous-archiving.html
> Description:
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> Most examples in "25.3. Continuous Archiving and Point-in-Time Recovery
> (PITR)" use Unix commands and paths, but all variables are written as
> Windows batch file variables (Windows "%var" / Unix "$var”).

These are special variables that PostgreSQL replaces regardless of
operating system. Per the paragraph above the examples:

    "In archive_command, %p is replaced by the path name of the
    file to archive, while %f is replaced by only the file name.”

Thanks,

Jonathan