Re: PITR on Win32 - Archive and Restore Command

Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.win32
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Not if you pass it to the Windows shell via system() or popen() - then 
forward slashed paths need to be quoted. It's only the libraries that 
understand forward slashes as God intended.

cheers

andrew

Mark Kirkwood wrote:

> hmmm... I was under that impression too, and was a bit surprised when 
> it *seemed* not to....I will go and check again - just in case some 
> user error leaked in :-)
>
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> [email protected] writes:
>>  
>>
>>> There is a bit of a trap if using '%p' in archive_command - it has 
>>> seperators
>>> like '/' instead of '\', so does not work for some windows commands 
>>> (like
>>> 'copy' for instance).
>>>   
>>
>>
>> I was under the impression that forward slashes would work fine, as long
>> as you used them consistently?
>>
>

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