Re: pg_regress breaks on msys

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_regress breaks on msys
Date: 2006-07-19 17:14:38
Message-ID: 14099.1153329278@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> * From http://www.computerhope.com/cmd.htm:
> *
> * 1. If all of the following conditions are met, then quote characters
> * on the command line are preserved:
> *
> * - no /S switch
> * - exactly two quote characters
> * - no special characters between the two quote characters, where special
> * is one of: &<>()@^|
> * - there are one or more whitespace characters between the the two quote
> * characters
> * - the string between the two quote characters is the name of an
> * executable file.

Hmm, that suggests that our code works *only* if there's white space in
all the paths !? Seems unlikely that this description is fully correct,
or we'd have had problems before.

regards, tom lane

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