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Re: PostgreSQL Service on Windows does not start. ~ "is not a valid Win32 application" - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: PostgreSQL Service on Windows does not start. ~ "is not a valid Win32 application"
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Msg-id 22863.1385772006@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL Service on Windows does not start. ~ "is not a valid Win32 application"  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> On 11/29/2013 06:43 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I've committed this patch.  I added a make_native_path() call to fix the
>> slashes-versus-backslashes issue noted by Christian Ullrich, since that
>> was an easy one-line addition.

> I don't mind changing this, but IMNSHO it's not a bug. The program 
> that's reported to fail with the old use of mixed separators is the one 
> with the bug. But changing it costs us little.

Yeah, no doubt, but we're certainly swimming against the tide by not
following the platform convention.
        regards, tom lane

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