From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2021 18:39:34 +0000 (-0300)
Subject: Use native path separators to pg_ctl in initdb
X-Git-Tag: REL_12_7~84
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f927767919e8d7079043d637d2177b554126ad6c;p=thirdparty%2Fpostgresql.git

Use native path separators to pg_ctl in initdb

On Windows, CMD.EXE allegedly does not run a command that uses forward slashes,
so let's convert the path to use backslashes instead.

Backpatch to 10.

Author: Nitin Jadhav <nitinjadhavpostgres@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan José Santamaría Flecha <juanjo.santamaria@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMm1aWaNDuaPYFYMAqDeJrZmPtNvLcJRS++CcZWY8LT6KcoBZw@mail.gmail.com
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diff --git a/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c b/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c
index 81568218167..2da587c3766 100644
--- a/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c
+++ b/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c
@@ -3350,6 +3350,9 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	/* ... and tag on pg_ctl instead */
 	join_path_components(pg_ctl_path, pg_ctl_path, "pg_ctl");
 
+	/* Convert the path to use native separators */
+	make_native_path(pg_ctl_path);
+
 	/* path to pg_ctl, properly quoted */
 	appendShellString(start_db_cmd, pg_ctl_path);