Re: FW: getting a crash during initdb

From: "Merlin Moncure" <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com>
To: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, <psql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: FW: getting a crash during initdb
Date: 2004-04-26 18:05:10
Message-ID: 6EE64EF3AB31D5448D0007DD34EEB34101ADDE@Herge.rcsinc.local
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> > I'll check why the rmdir command is not working as expected.
>
> I just poked around and couldn't figure out the cause. Initdb should
> either remove the directory if it created it, or remove everything
_in_
> the directory if the directory already existed. I tried the rmdir/del
> /s /q commands in a CMD window and it worked fine.

Problem is backslash issue :) initdb is issuing del /s /q
"c:/postgres/data".

Is there a library command to properly resolve slashes?

Merlin

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