Re: Fix initdb for path with whitespace and at char

On 04/30/2014 11:58 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> On 04/30/2014 06:31 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
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>> Andrew: you have a cygwin installation, don't you? Could you test if
>> "pg_ctl start" works when the binaries are installed to a path that
>> contains both a space and an @ sign, like "C:\white
>> space\at(at)sign\install". I suspect it doesn't, but the attached patch
>> fixes it.
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> I'll see what I can do.

I tried git master like this:

foo\ bar/a\(at)b/bin/initdb.exe data
foo\ bar/a\(at)b/bin/pg_ctl.exe -D data/ -w start

and didn't encounter a problem.

Platform is Windows 8 Pro 64 bit, with latest 32 bit Cygwin.

[ ... ] It looks like possibly the only time this will actually matter
on Cygwin is when starting a service. Just running "pg_ctl start" from
the command line works fine. But starting the service doesn't.

I'll try the patch when I get a chance.

cheers

andrew

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> andrew
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