Re: PITR on Win32 - Archive and Restore

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> > Actually, it appears to me that we have a 100% solution.
>
> Yeah --- "friends don't let friends use Windows" ...
>
> Is there any part of this discussion that does not amount to documenting
> Redmond's bugs?
>
> I'm perfectly happy to back out the slash-to-backslash conversion I
> committed a bit ago, but I'm worried about what else is coming down
> the pike.

I did enough tests to realize that we have done the best we can with
Win32 COPY. It is OK with forward slashes in the second argument but
not the first.

The attached applied patch cleans up our implementation and documents
its purpose. I also added some examples for 'archive_command'.

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