Received: from maia.hub.org (unknown [200.46.208.211]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 001106321ED for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:44:28 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.211]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 18345-07 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:44:11 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E1356326D6 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:44:18 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o2VNiFdo000866; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:44:15 -0400 (EDT) To: Bruce Momjian cc: Josh Kupershmidt , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: confusing archive_command example In-reply-to: <201003312339.o2VNdLq23837@momjian.us> References: <201003312339.o2VNdLq23837@momjian.us> Comments: In-reply-to Bruce Momjian message dated "Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:39:21 -0400" Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:44:15 -0400 Message-ID: <865.1270079055@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.464 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=AWL=0.135, BAYES_00=-2.599 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201003/25 X-Sequence-Number: 5390 Bruce Momjian writes: > As far as "...", those are used to show only the important changes in > the string, which I think is the right approach, but I did change the > line so the dots are not right up against slashes: > archive_command = 'test ! -f ... %f && cp %p ... %f' This is *not* an improvement, because it makes it look like the %f is a separate command argument. Please revert if you can't think of something better. regards, tom lane