On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 4:11 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > I wrote: > > Pavlo Golub <pavlo.go...@cybertec.at> writes: > >> I cannot find the reason why EDITOR value on Windows is quoted. > > > The comment you quoted explains it: apparently people expect > > paths-with-spaces to work in that value without any manual quoting. > > Actually, after digging in the git history and archives, the current > behavior seems to trace back to a discussion on pgsql-hackers on > 2004-11-15. The thread linkage in the archives seems rather incomplete, > but it boiled down to this: > > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/9045.1100539151%40sss.pgh.pa.us > > ie, the argument that people could handle space-containing paths by > putting double quotes into the environment variable's value is just wrong. > Possibly Microsoft fixed that in the fifteen years since, but I'd want to > see some proof.
Interesting. Thanks. I'll prepare a patch showing the case. > > regards, tom lane
