Re: PITR on Win32 - Archive and Restore
Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
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Tom Lane wrote: >Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]> writes: > > >>Tom Lane wrote: >> >> >>>As I said before, I'm willing to #ifdef the code so that the string >>>substituted for %p converts all / to \ on Windows. What I'd like to >>>know is whether that's enough to solve the problems, particularly in >>>face of spaces in the path, or whether we'll still be in quoting hell. >>> >>> > > > >>Names with spaces will need to be quoted :-( >> >> > >But does that have to be done in the code, or will > archive_command = 'copy "%p" ...' >work? > > That should work just fine (or with xcopy). >Strictly speaking, people probably ought to use something like > archive_command = 'cp "%p" ...' >on Unix too, so if this is what it takes on Windows I'm satisfied. >Just wondering about what other gotchas Redmond has prepared for us... > > > > Yes, it's just that Unix people (or at least those of us who are professionals) usually have more sense that to put spaces in file names ... cheers andrew ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org