Zach Irmen wrote: > "Andrew Dunstan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Zach Irmen said: > > > Can I just ifndef WIN32 and not think about it? I'm not sure how that > > > would work either. > > > > > > > If we are going to have a Windows port I don't think we should treat it as > > a poor cousin. > > I guess I was thinking more about if it should be done as opposed to how it > would be done. On the one hand, I think '~' by itself has no meaning in a > normal Windows environment, so why should psql on Windows give it one? The > readline library on unix, which can be used by psql, interprets the tilde > and is the big reason why psql on unix should interpret the tilde as well. > On the other hand however, I can see consistency being important in that > giving '~' a meaning in psql should give it the same meaning regardless of > platform.
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As I remember, MSDOS uses the "~" to specify short versions of long file names. I think that is enough for us to say that we are best leaving '~' expansion only for Unix. We already dump COPY in a native Win32 format, so it seems we should handle special characters in a similar native way. I will add a comment to this affect in the source code. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
