Re: PITR on Win32 - Archive and Restore - Mailing list pgsql-hackers-win32

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: PITR on Win32 - Archive and Restore
Date
Msg-id 4938.24.211.141.25.1092162228.squirrel@www.dunslane.net
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In response to Re: PITR on Win32 - Archive and Restore  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: PITR on Win32 - Archive and Restore  (markir@coretech.co.nz)
List pgsql-hackers-win32
Tom Lane said:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>> I have gotten confused by this.  Does COPY work with quoted paths only
>> if we use forward slashes, or was this fix just for the slash issue
>> and not spaces?
>
> This only fixes the slash issue.  If your database path includes spaces
> you'll still need to put quotes in the archive_command, but it
> shouldn't be any worse than
>     archive_command = 'copy "%p" "c:\someplace\%f"'
>
> I'd appreciate confirmation though from some win32 users that the above
> indeed works.
>

That's what my experimentation showed, although I worked with a tiny test.c
file rather than the archive command. I think this is the right solution -
the user should put the quotes in, not postgres.

cheers

andrew




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