Re: pg_ctl using START with paths needing quotes

This is a really ugly hack (I take the blame since I gave Bruce the
idea). There are a few things to note:

. the .bat file should probably be created in the data dir - that's
about the only place that we should be guaranteed we can write.
. the command should be preceded by '@' to suppress echoing
. the whole command, including redirections should go inside the .bat
file, so that pg_ctl just issues 'start /b foo.bat'

There are still things to clean up in pg_ctl, e.g. its handling of
relative paths to the data dir.

cheers

andrew

Bruce Momjian wrote:

>This applied patch changes the way pg_ctl starts on Win32.
>
>Using START, it is not possible to quote the executable name, who's
>directory might have spaces:
>
> START /B /program files/x.exe
>
>The fix is to create a temporary batch file in C:\ containing:
>
> /program files/x.exe
>
>and run START with the batch name:
>
> START /B C:\PG_CTL_323223.BAT
>
>then unlink the batch file.
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