Re: Why polecat and colugos are failing to build back branches - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Why polecat and colugos are failing to build back branches
Date
Msg-id 29849.1308234094@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Why polecat and colugos are failing to build back branches  (Robert Creager <robert@logicalchaos.org>)
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Robert Creager <robert@logicalchaos.org> writes:
> On Jun 15, 2011, at 7:51 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> installation paths.  About the only good thing to be said about it is
>> that these characters are so troublesome that Unix users are unlikely
>> to use them in directory names anyway.

> So I'm guessing you don't want this path name?  I was going to throw some \n and & in it also, maybe some *,' and "
forgood measure >-)  Shall I just stick with spaces?
 

> drwxr-xr-x   2 Robert  wheel    68B Jun 15 17:26 pg bu!ldfa$m\a\$y/
> Robert-Creagers-iMac:src Robert$

There seems to be about no chance of making that work :-(.

In practice, names with spaces seem to be the only cases we've heard
complaints about, so I doubt it's worth getting worked up over.
        regards, tom lane


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