Re: [PATCHES] Bug in WAL backup documentation - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: [PATCHES] Bug in WAL backup documentation
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Msg-id 1162595366.3587.788.camel@silverbirch.site
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In response to Re: [PATCHES] Bug in WAL backup documentation  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
Responses Re: [PATCHES] Bug in WAL backup documentation  ("Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Re: [PATCHES] Bug in WAL backup documentation  ("Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net>)
Re: [PATCHES] Bug in WAL backup documentation  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 17:34 +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 11:25:09AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Since 8.1 has done this all along and no one's actually complained about
> > it, I guess no one is using scripts that do "cd".  I'm inclined to go
> > with Bernd's suggestion to change the docs to match the code, but does
> > anyone have a contrary opinion?

> In Unix you can easily prepend $PWD to the
> string, but I don't know how easy that is in Windows.

Windows input anyone?


Given the lack of a comprehensive test suite at this stage, I'd vote on
the side of least change right now. We know the existing mechanism
works, and as Martijn point out there is a workaround, plus as Tom
discusses this would only happen if people "cd" which in my book would
be bad programming form anyway.

+1 Doc bug for 8.2, feature request for 8.3, unless Windows bites.

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  Simon Riggs
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