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From: Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: 25.3. Continuous Archiving : Unix examples with Windows-style variables %-$
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 08:54:39 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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Hi,

> On Aug 23, 2018, at 5:54 AM, PG Doc comments form <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
> 
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/continuous-archiving.html
> Description:
> 
> Most examples in "25.3. Continuous Archiving and Point-in-Time Recovery
> (PITR)" use Unix commands and paths, but all variables are written as
> Windows batch file variables (Windows "%var" / Unix "$var”).

These are special variables that PostgreSQL replaces regardless of
operating system. Per the paragraph above the examples:

	"In archive_command, %p is replaced by the path name of the
	file to archive, while %f is replaced by only the file name.”

Thanks,

Jonathan



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