Re: Patch: initdb: "'" for QUOTE_PATH (non-windows)

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 12:12 AM, Ryan Murphy <ryanfmurphy(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> This is to fix an issue that came up for me when running initdb.
>
> At the end of a successful initdb it says:
>
> Success. You can now start the database server using:
> pg_ctl -D /some/path/to/data -l logfile start
>
> but this command did not work for me because my data directory
> contained a space. The src/bin/initdb/initdb.c source code
> did already have a QUOTE_PATH constant, but it was the empty
> string for non-windows cases.
>
> Therefore, added quotes via existing QUOTE_PATH constant:
>
> pg_ctl -D '/some/path/to/data' -l logfile start

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Michael