Re: Other Win32 TODO items?

> To the best of my knowledge, only the command processor cares about
> this, and you can get around it by quoting the command - see
> my initdb.c for examples. (this is also why I pass PGDATA via the
environment and
> never via the command line - the Windows command processor is
> quite dumb about multiple quoted strings). AFAIK direct library calls
> like stat() or fopen() should accept forward slashes. It may be that
> libraries other than MSVCRT act differently, although that would be very
odd,
> even for M$.

They will, as long as there isn't a mix of forward and backward slashes,
which is currently the case in the backend code. Either canonicalize on
forward, or #define out backslashes in Win32. In either case, it is an
outstanding TODO item for postgres under win32.

> For now. I suspect that threading will be wanted before too long.

Threading'll bring in a bunch of other items (for instance, file handles +
memory leaks that currently are closed/recovered when the backend process
dies), but one step at a time :-)

Cheers,
Claudio

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