Re: PITR on Win32 - Archive and Restore

I tried out Andrew's suggestion, to no avail - none of the archive_commands
below work:

archive_command = 'copy "%p" "c:/databases/pgarchive/%f"'
archive_command = 'copy \"%p\" \"c:/databases/pgarchive/%f\"'
archive_command = 'copy \\"%p\\" \\"c:/databases/pgarchive/%f\\"' # desperation
...

A bit more investigation reveals that copy is bit selective about when it will
accept quoted paths containing '/'.

This works:

cd c:\databases\pgdata\pg_xlog
copy 00000001000000000000006A "c:/databases/pgarchive/00000001000000000000006A"

This does not (unless your current directory is pg_xlog!):

copy "c:/databases/pgdata/pg_xlog/00000001000000000000006A"
"c:/databases/pgarchive/00000001000000000000006A"

I guess this is not so bad if it is *just* 'copy' with this behaviour. I might
try out winzip and see how I get on...

regards (with some puzzlement)

Mark

Quoting Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>:

>
> Not if you pass it to the Windows shell via system() or popen() - then
> forward slashed paths need to be quoted. It's only the libraries that
> understand forward slashes as God intended.