Re: Initdb on Windows 2003 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

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Msg-id 2E22904642859A40AF5E1CA1597EBB1F02EF424E@devexmb1.corp.nai.org
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In response to Initdb on Windows 2003  (<James_Hughes@McAfee.com>)
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I think we can safely say that it is not :-)


-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Dunstan [mailto:andrew@dunslane.net]
Sent: 03 March 2006 15:41
To: Magnus Hagander
Cc: Hughes, James; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Initdb on Windows 2003

Magnus Hagander wrote:

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>>Have raised a helpdesk ticket with Microsoft, see if they can shed any

>>light on the problem.
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>Sounds good - since you can reproduce it with a simple commandline,
>they should at least accept touching the case ;-)
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In any case, since dir > nul fails, I think we can probably say it's Not
Our Problem (tm).

We've used nul on Windows ever since initdb was written in C.

cheers

andrew


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