Re: PITR on Win32 - Archive and Restore

Funny thing is, now that the "%p" is silently using '\', the "target" path can
use '/':

e.g :

archive_command = 'copy "%p" "c:/databases/pgarchive/%f"'

*now* works fine. The next interesting question will be "can I use '/' in the
restore_command too?". I will have a muddle around with it.

regards

Mark

Quoting markir(at)coretech(dot)co(dot)nz:

> I agree, the approach seems quite nice.
>
> I gave the lastest cvs a go - which is probably cvs as of about 2 hours ago,
> as
> a mingw build takes 55 minutes on this machine (compare to 6 minutes when
> booted into Freebsd... ah well..)
>
>
> Initially tried :
>
> archive_command = 'copy "%p" "c:\databases\pgarchive\%f"'
>
> But saw errors in the log about "c:databasespgarchive00000..."
>
> Looks like '\' needs to be escaped, confirmed this with :
>
>
> archive_command = 'copy "%p" "c:\\databases\\pgarchive\\%f"'
>
> Which worked fine. However, it would be nice if the '\' inside the '"' were
> 'auto-escaped' somehow, as I suspect Mr 'used-windows-all-my-life' will find
> the current behaviour counter-intuitive.
>
> Otherwise looks good
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> Quoting Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>:
>
> > Tom Lane said:
> > > Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > >> I have gotten confused by this. Does COPY work with quoted paths only
> > >> if we use forward slashes, or was this fix just for the slash issue
> > >> and not spaces?
> > >
> > > This only fixes the slash issue. If your database path includes spaces
> > > you'll still need to put quotes in the archive_command, but it
> > > shouldn't be any worse than
> > > archive_command = 'copy "%p" "c:\someplace\%f"'
> > >
> > > I'd appreciate confirmation though from some win32 users that the above
> > > indeed works.
> > >
> >
> > That's what my experimentation showed, although I worked with a tiny test.c
> > file rather than the archive command. I think this is the right solution -
> > the user should put the quotes in, not postgres.
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > andrew
> >
> >
> >
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