Re: pg_ctl using START with paths needing quotes

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> This is a really ugly hack (I take the blame since I gave Bruce the
> idea). There are a few things to note:
>
> . the .bat file should probably be created in the data dir - that's
> about the only place that we should be guaranteed we can write.
> . the command should be preceded by '@' to suppress echoing
> . the whole command, including redirections should go inside the .bat
> file, so that pg_ctl just issues 'start /b foo.bat'
>
> There are still things to clean up in pg_ctl, e.g. its handling of
> relative paths to the data dir.

Hack removed.

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