| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Robert Creager <robert(at)logicalchaos(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Why polecat and colugos are failing to build back branches |
| Date: | 2011-06-16 14:21:34 |
| Message-ID: | 29849.1308234094@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Robert Creager <robert(at)logicalchaos(dot)org> writes:
> On Jun 15, 2011, at 7:51 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> installation paths. About the only good thing to be said about it is
>> that these characters are so troublesome that Unix users are unlikely
>> to use them in directory names anyway.
> So I'm guessing you don't want this path name? I was going to throw some \n and & in it also, maybe some *,' and " for good measure >-) Shall I just stick with spaces?
> drwxr-xr-x 2 Robert wheel 68B Jun 15 17:26 pg bu!ldfa$m\a\$y/
> Robert-Creagers-iMac:src Robert$
There seems to be about no chance of making that work :-(.
In practice, names with spaces seem to be the only cases we've heard
complaints about, so I doubt it's worth getting worked up over.
regards, tom lane
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