"Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> writes:
> When we first discussed this I posted a very simple example 'cd /'
> which does absolutely nothing unlike 'cd \' or 'cd \\' which work as
> expected, quite possibly for the reason you suggest. Although the / is
> accepted, I don't believe it can be called reliable as it obviously
> doesn't work in all situations.
However, that's not the issue here. AFAIK, pg_config will only put out
fully qualified paths, that is "C:/foo", so the risk that something
starting with slash will be misinterpreted seems irrelevant to me.
If it doesn't always prepend a drive letter, let's see about fixing
that instead.
regards, tom lane
