Re: PITR on Win32 - Archive and Restore

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> Oh, yes, multiple quotes strings also cause problems :-(. You have no
> idea how frustrating this was when I was writing initdb, and how hard it
> was to find the problems.
>
> The chdir solution might be best if we can do it, so that we only need
> to quote the destination path.
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
> markir(at)coretech(dot)co(dot)nz wrote:
>
> >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
> >...

As I remember the fix was to use this:

archive_command = '"copy "%p" "c:/databases/pgarchive/%f""'

Yes, that is one extra quote at the start and end of the string. Would
you try that?

FYI, port.h has this:

/*
* Win32 needs double quotes at the beginning and end of system()
* strings. If not, it gets confused with multiple quoted strings.
* It also must use double-quotes around the executable name
* and any files used for redirection. Other args can use single-quotes.
*
* See the "Notes" section about quotes at:
* http://home.earthlink.net/~rlively/MANUALS/COMMANDS/C/CMD.HTM
*/
#ifdef WIN32
#define SYSTEMQUOTE "\""
#else
#define SYSTEMQUOTE ""
#endif

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