Re: pg_regress breaks on msys - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pg_regress breaks on msys
Date
Msg-id 14099.1153329278@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: pg_regress breaks on msys  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: pg_regress breaks on msys  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
>  *  From http://www.computerhope.com/cmd.htm:
>  *
>  *  1. If all of the following conditions are met, then quote characters
>  *  on the command line are preserved:
>  *
>  *   - no /S switch
>  *   - exactly two quote characters
>  *   - no special characters between the two quote characters, where special
>  *     is one of: &<>()@^|
>  *   - there are one or more whitespace characters between the the two quote
>  *     characters
>  *   - the string between the two quote characters is the name of an
>  *     executable file.

Hmm, that suggests that our code works *only* if there's white space in
all the paths !?  Seems unlikely that this description is fully correct,
or we'd have had problems before.
        regards, tom lane


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