Re: PITR on Win32 - Archive and Restore

Tom Lane said:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> I have gotten confused by this. Does COPY work with quoted paths only
>> if we use forward slashes, or was this fix just for the slash issue
>> and not spaces?
>
> This only fixes the slash issue. If your database path includes spaces
> you'll still need to put quotes in the archive_command, but it
> shouldn't be any worse than
> archive_command = 'copy "%p" "c:\someplace\%f"'
>
> I'd appreciate confirmation though from some win32 users that the above
> indeed works.
>

That's what my experimentation showed, although I worked with a tiny test.c
file rather than the archive command. I think this is the right solution -
the user should put the quotes in, not postgres.

cheers

andrew