Re: Running Windows binaries from non-English folder

Thank you, George!
This should work. You are right, short names are ascii only
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 10:10 George Neuner <gneuner2(at)comcast(dot)net> wrote:

> On Tue, 07 Nov 2017 19:30:46 +0000, Yuri Martsinovsky
> <captainsilver(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > If I run
> > "C:\????????\pg_ctl.exe"
> > I get this error:
> > invalid binary: "C:\????????\pg_ctl.exe"
> >
> > The same happens when running initdb.exe
> > Looks like the utility just cannot access its own file because of the
> > russian characters.
>
> Try running it using 8.3 path names. Every file and folder in NTFS has
> 2 names - one "natural" and a secondary "short" DOS 8.3 name+ext format
> name. You can see short names using DIR /X in a console. The short
> names should be ASCII (subset) only.
>
> E.g., on my system pg_ctl is in C:\program files\postgresql\9.6\bin.
> It's short name is C:\PROGRA~1\POSTGR~1\9.6\bin\pg_ctl.exe
>
> These short names don't permit spaces or non-printing characters, so
> they can work in situations where the natural name may not.
>
> George
>
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