Re: PITR on Win32 - Archive and Restore

From: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: Merlin Moncure <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com>, markir(at)coretech(dot)co(dot)nz, pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PITR on Win32 - Archive and Restore
Date: 2004-08-09 14:51:57
Message-ID: 41178F8D.8030409@pse-consulting.de
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Dave Page wrote:
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: pgsql-hackers-win32-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
>>[mailto:pgsql-hackers-win32-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf
>>Of Merlin Moncure
>>Sent: 09 August 2004 13:12
>>To: markir(at)coretech(dot)co(dot)nz
>>Cc: pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org
>>Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] PITR on Win32 - Archive and Restore
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>>I tried using copy for a while and gave up...it never got the
>>slashes right. I then replaced with cp that comes with mingw
>>and that works fine.
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> We can't really ship that though as it's GNU...

Shell commands usage from programs has always been a PITA in win32, and
it will probably remain. We should replace all such occurrences by /port
stuff to get this fixed finally.

Regards,
Andreas

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