Re: Data directory with trailing [back]slash

Tom Lane wrote:

>"Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net> writes:
>
>
>>It's not possible to start the postmaster on win32 with:
>>postmaster -D d:\pgdata\
>>or
>>postmaster -D d:/pgdata/
>>
>>
>
>Sounds like canonicalize_path() needs to be applied a bit sooner than
>it is.
>
>BTW I think canonicalize_path() is a few bricks shy of a load yet:
>I'm not sure it works well with Windows drive-letters, and it definitely
>will strip significant slashes when given input like '/' or 'C:\'.
>Feel free to fix those problems while at it...
>
>

Or use the attached patch, which I think does it right.

cheers

andrew