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

From: Ryan Murphy <ryanfmurphy(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Patch: initdb: "'" for QUOTE_PATH (non-windows)
Date: 2016-08-16 06:02:47
Message-ID: CAHeEsBeYuvJC+km_m5vRVhm61QwJf7mqQM+mPrkrO1MhrMG8rg@mail.gmail.com
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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
> <javascript:;>> 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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