Re: dynamic_library_path on Win32

Yes, on windows, you use a semicolon as path separator.

regards,

- thomas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Thomas Hallgren" <thhal@mailblocks.com>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 17:20
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] dynamic_library_path on Win32


> "Thomas Hallgren" <thhal@mailblocks.com> writes:
> > I'm using CVS HEAD in a windows environment. I'm trying to start the
> > postmaster using "postmaster -c dynamic_library_path=C:/foo/bar". It
starts
> > just fine, then, when I ask it to load a module, an error is generating
> > stating:
>
> > ERROR: component in parameter "dynamic_library_path" is not an absolute
path
>
> > I added a trace to find out what it thinks the path is. It prints "C".
> > Obviously it treats ':' as a path separator somewhere.
>
> Yeah.  dynamic_library_path follows the universal Unix convention that
> search path components are separated by ':'.  Is there any equivalent
> convention in Windows?
>
> regards, tom lane
>