Magnus Hagander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 07:47:14AM +0100, Gregory Stark wrote: >> Actually I think in Windows \ : and . are problems (not allowed more >> than one dot in dos).
> \ and : are problems. Is : really a problem, given that the name in question will be appended to a known directory's path? > . is not a problem. We don't support 16-bit windows anyway, and multiple > dots works fine on any system we support. I'm not convinced that . is issue-free. On most if not all versions of Unix, you are allowed to open a directory as a file and read the filenames it contains. While I don't say it'd be easy to manage that through tsearch, there's at least a potential for discovering the filenames present in . and .. --- how much do we care about that? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend