Re: [HACKERS] Bug in WAL backup documentation

From: "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: "Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Bernd Helmle" <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>, <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Bug in WAL backup documentation
Date: 2006-11-03 23:09:25
Message-ID: 1162595366.3587.788.camel@silverbirch.site
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On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 17:34 +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 11:25:09AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Since 8.1 has done this all along and no one's actually complained about
> > it, I guess no one is using scripts that do "cd". I'm inclined to go
> > with Bernd's suggestion to change the docs to match the code, but does
> > anyone have a contrary opinion?

> In Unix you can easily prepend $PWD to the
> string, but I don't know how easy that is in Windows.

Windows input anyone?

Given the lack of a comprehensive test suite at this stage, I'd vote on
the side of least change right now. We know the existing mechanism
works, and as Martijn point out there is a workaround, plus as Tom
discusses this would only happen if people "cd" which in my book would
be bad programming form anyway.

+1 Doc bug for 8.2, feature request for 8.3, unless Windows bites.

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Simon Riggs
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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