Re: Loggin on WIN32

[Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>]

Harald Armin Massa wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I installed various win32-postgres-betas, but ... still I am not able 
> to use the logging-Parameter
>
> c:\pgsql\bin\pg_ctl -D c:/pgsql/data start -l c:/pgsql/postgres.log
>
> leads to
>
> Die Syntax für den Dateinamen, Verzeichnisnamen oder die 
> Datenträgerbezeichnung
> ist falsch.
> postmaster starting
>
> Meaning:
>
> "syntax of filename, directory name or volumename is wrong" ...
>
> without "-l" it works; turning "/" to "\" does not improve the situation.
>
> Is logging already supposed to work on win32?

pg_ctl needs some polishing.

The first thing I would try is to move the "start" to the end of the 
command line - there are some options glitches I suspect.

I am also not at all sure how well the start/restart code will work on 
Windows - we probably have some adjustment to do in that area.

cheers

andrew