On 09/03/2012 03:22 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> This time with a patch.
> Nitpicky gripe: "fix_path" is a mighty generic name. How about
> "fix_path_for_windows" or something like that? I don't think I'd
> mark it inline, either.
>
> More generally, the behavior of combining two (maybe) filename segments
> seems overcomplicated and unnecessary. Why not just have it take *one*
> argument and back-slashify that, without the concatenation behavior?
> Then you'd have two calls instead of one at some of the call sites,
> but that doesn't seem like much of a loss. The malloc'd strings are
> getting leaked anyway. The function itself would reduce to pg_strdup
> and a backslashification loop. Also, you could turn it into a complete
> no-op (not even pg_strdup) on non-Windows.
>
>
OK, revised patch attached.
cheers
andrew
