Re: PITR on Win32 - Archive and Restore

Question:
It is my understanding that this copy operation is initiated out of some
main program and not in a shell script, right ?
Then why don't you use one of the CopyFile or CopyFileEx API routines on
Win32 ? Sure, it will need some additional #ifdef clauses in the source
codes, but I think performance will be better and you can even include a
progress callback function. Besides, no child process needs to be created
and - best of all ! - this approach removes all file name escaping and
parsing issues because it will take source and destination parameters as
strings.
What do you think ?

Regards,
Christian.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: <markir@coretech.co.nz>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers-win32@postgresql.org>
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] PITR on Win32 - Archive and Restore


> > Well, it is really fighting us.....
> >
> > This is the archive_command:
> >
> > '""copy.exe" "%p" "c:/databases/pgarchive/%f""'
> >
> > and this is the log:
> >
> > LOG:  archive command """copy.exe"
> > "c:/databases/pgdata/pg_xlog/000000010000000000000007"
> > "c:/databases/pgarchive/000000010000000000000007""" failed: return code
> > 1 '"copy.exe"' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> > operable program or batch file.
> >
> > (tried plain old '"copy"' too)
> >
>
> What happens with this archive command?:
>
> '"copy "%p" "c:/databases/pgarchive/%f""'
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
>
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