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

I've submitted my patch to Commitfest 2016-09.

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/10/718/

My username on postgresql.org is murftown

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 1:02 AM, Ryan Murphy <ryanfmurphy(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Ok, I'll do that!
> Thanks Michael!
> Ryan
>
>
> On Monday, August 15, 2016, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>> You may want to register this patch to the next commit fest:
>> https://commitfest.postgresql.org/10/
>> --
>> Michael
>>
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