Re: PITR on Win32 - Archive and Restore

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PITR on Win32 - Archive and Restore
Date: 2004-08-09 15:19:08
Message-ID: 411795EC.3030208@dunslane.net
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Tom Lane wrote:

>markir(at)coretech(dot)co(dot)nz writes:
>
>
>>Trying out stuff on the command line seems to show a general "unwillingness" to
>>work with forward slashed names at all:
>>
>>
>
>Yeah, I think it may only be the POSIX library routines that are really
>forward-slash friendly.
>
>As I said before, I'm willing to #ifdef the code so that the string
>substituted for %p converts all / to \ on Windows. What I'd like to
>know is whether that's enough to solve the problems, particularly in
>face of spaces in the path, or whether we'll still be in quoting hell.
>
>
>

Names with spaces will need to be quoted :-(

The good news is that we don't seem to need as many quotes as Bruce
suggested. See my earlier email.

cheers

andrew

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