Re: [HACKERS] Bug in WAL backup documentation

Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de>, pgsql-patches@postgresql.org
Date: 2006-11-03T16:34:16Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 11:25:09AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Since 8.1 has done this all along and no one's actually complained about
> it, I guess no one is using scripts that do "cd".  I'm inclined to go
> with Bernd's suggestion to change the docs to match the code, but does
> anyone have a contrary opinion?

Arguably you could give people a choice, say %P for the absolute path
and %p for the relative one. In Unix you can easily prepend $PWD to the
string, but I don't know how easy that is in Windows.

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.