Re: dynamic_library_path on Win32

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Thomas Hallgren" <thhal(at)mailblocks(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: dynamic_library_path on Win32
Date: 2004-05-29 18:45:28
Message-ID: 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE34BB62@algol.sollentuna.se
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>> I'm using CVS HEAD in a windows environment. I'm trying to start the
>> postmaster using "postmaster -c
>dynamic_library_path=C:/foo/bar". It starts
>> just fine, then, when I ask it to load a module, an error is
>generating
>> stating:
>
>> ERROR: component in parameter "dynamic_library_path" is not
>an absolute path
>
>> I added a trace to find out what it thinks the path is. It
>prints "C".
>> Obviously it treats ':' as a path separator somewhere.
>
>Yeah. dynamic_library_path follows the universal Unix convention that
>search path components are separated by ':'. Is there any equivalent
>convention in Windows?

';' is what's used in PATH, and several other such places.

//Magnus

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