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. -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
