Re: pg_upgrade: quote directory names in delete_old_cluster script - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 05:03:45PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > All of our makefiles use single quotes, so effectively the only
> > character we don't support in directory paths is the single quote itself.
>
> This seems to say that Windows batch files don't have any special
> meaning for single quotes:
>
>     http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24173825/what-does-single-quote-do-in-windows-batch-files
>
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10737283/single-quotes-and-double-quotes-how-to-have-the-same-behaviour-in-unix-and-wind
>
> Again, is it worth doing something platform-specific?  I can certainly
> define a platform-specific macro for " or ' as and use that.  Good idea?

I have developed the attached patch to use platform-specific quoting of
path names.

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