>>Attached patch makes initdb generate the config files with windows >>linebreaks when running on windows. This makes it a lot easier for the >>user to edit the configuration files, since any win32 plaintext editor >>can be used (such as notepad for example). >> >>If this is acceptable, and the method is ok, please apply for beta4 so >>we can add some nice icons to the win32 installer :-) >> >> >> > >Assuming this works, the far simpler change would (or should) >be to open >the file with "w" rather than PG_BINARY_W in all cases.
That does seem to work, yes. I thought there was some magic reason we were using PG_BINARY_W and not "w".. Assuming there isn't, attached patch is certainly cleaner. >I don't know what Windows editors other than Notepad don't understand >line feeds properly - Wordpad at least does, as well as every editor I >actually use on Windows. I've seen a couple, though I can't recall right now which they were. Wordpad can play some nasty tricks on you with copy/paste, and semi-formatted texts, though. I don't use notepad much myself either, since there are plenty of good editors out there. But notepad is the one that's going to be on *every* windows system... //Magnus
initdb_win32newline2.patch
Description: initdb_win32newline2.patch
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