| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> |
| Cc: | pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: doc patch - archive/restore_command on windows |
| Date: | 2008-06-20 08:00:13 |
| Message-ID: | 485B638D.6000303@dunslane.net |
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ITAGAKI Takahiro wrote:
> I found the examples of documentation about archive_command and
> restore_command for Windows are incorrect or improper.
>
> - "copy" doesn't accept / (slash) as a path separator.
> We should use \\ (double backslash) for the purpose.
> - Windows path is typically starts with a drive letter (C:\\).
> - We'd better to quote a whole path, not only the last filename
> with double-quotes. It can work, but is not a windows manner.
>
>
>
>
As previously discussed, we should probably stop recommending use of the
Windows copy command altogether, and recommend use of GnuWin32 cp
instead, for archive_command. The latter does behave sanely w.r.t.
forward slashes.
cheers
andrew
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