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Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 12:05:58 -0400
From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
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To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
CC: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>,
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Subject: Re: odd output in restore mode
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>   
>> Another and probably simpler thing to try would be the GnuWin32 version  
>> of cp. If we can verify that it behaves itself, we should probably  
>> recommend it for use in archive_command instead of the native Windows 
>> copy.
>>     
>
> Perhaps use xcopy, which should be more ubiquitous?
>
>   

I would be very surprised if xcopy did not exhibit the same 
preallocating behaviour as copy.

cheers

andrew