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

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: [PATCHES] Bug in WAL backup documentation
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Msg-id 20061103163416.GA551@svana.org
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In response to Re: [PATCHES] Bug in WAL backup documentation  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [PATCHES] Bug in WAL backup documentation
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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?

Arguably you could give people a choice, say %P for the absolute path
and %p for the relative one. In Unix you can easily prepend $PWD to the
string, but I don't know how easy that is in Windows.

Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.

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