<div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">on</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">20November 2013 23:44 Gavin Flower
wrote:</span><pclass="MsoNormal">>On 20/11/13 23:43, Haribabu kommi wrote:<pre>>>I tried using of stat'ing in
twodirectories, which is having a problem in windows.</pre> <pre>>>So modified old approach to detect limited
errors.Updated patch attached. </pre> <pre>>>This will detect and throw an error in the following
scenarios.</pre><pre>>>1. pg_basebackup -D /home/data --xlogdir=/home/data</pre> <pre>>>2. pg_basebackup -D
data--xlogdir=/home/data -- home is the CWD</pre> <pre>>>3. pg_basebackup -D ../data --xlogdir=/data -- home is
theCWD</pre> <pre> </pre><p class="MsoNormal">>I don't think Postgres on other systems should be hobbled by the
limitationsof Microsoft software!<br /> >If certain features of Postgres are either not available, or are available
ina reduced form on Microsoft platforms, then this should be documented - might provide subtle hints to upgrade to
Linux.<pclass="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal">The patch which sent in earlier mail provides the detection of base and
xlogdirectories are same or not<p class="MsoNormal">In both windows and linux with a different way of identifying the
samewithout stat’ing.<p class="MsoNormal">If other also agrees to add stat’ing then I will change the patch accordingly
anddocument the behavior <p class="MsoNormal">Change for windows.<p class="MsoNormal"><p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"CourierNew""> </span><p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"CourierNew"">Regards,</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"CourierNew"">Hari babu.</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="color:#1F497D"> </span></div>
