Re: [HACKERS] Bug in WAL backup documentation

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: 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 16:34:16
Message-ID: 20061103163416.GA551@svana.org
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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?

Arguably you could give people a choice, say %P for the absolute path
and %p for the relative one. In Unix you can easily prepend $PWD to the
string, but I don't know how easy that is in Windows.

Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.

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