On 9/9/19 4:48 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On 2019-09-09 00:06, Andrew Dunstan wrote: >> Diagnosing this took quite a lot of time and detective work. For some >> reason I don't quite understand, when calling the Windows command >> processor in a modern msys2/WindowsServer2019 installation, you need to >> double the slash, thus: >> >> cmd //c foo.bat >> >> Some Internet postings at least seem to suggest this is by design. (FSVO >> "design") >> >> I tested this on older versions and the change appears to work, so I >> propose to apply the attached patch. > If we're worried about messing things up for non-msys2 environments, we > could also set MSYS2_ARG_CONV_EXCL instead; see > <https://github.com/msys2/msys2/wiki/Porting#filesystem-namespaces>. > According to that page, that would seem to be the more proper way to do it. >
Nice find, thanks, I'll do it that way. cheers andrew -- Andrew Dunstan https://www.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
