This should work. You are right, short names are ascii only
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 10:10 George Neuner <gneuner2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 07 Nov 2017 19:30:46 +0000, Yuri Martsinovsky
<captainsilver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If I run
> "C:\????????\pg_ctl.exe"
> I get this error:
> invalid binary: "C:\????????\pg_ctl.exe"
>
> The same happens when running initdb.exe
> Looks like the utility just cannot access its own file because of the
> russian characters.
Try running it using 8.3 path names. Every file and folder in NTFS has
2 names - one "natural" and a secondary "short" DOS 8.3 name+ext format
name. You can see short names using DIR /X in a console. The short
names should be ASCII (subset) only.
E.g., on my system pg_ctl is in C:\program files\postgresql\9.6\bin.
It's short name is C:\PROGRA~1\POSTGR~1\9.6\bin\pg_ctl.exe
These short names don't permit spaces or non-printing characters, so
they can work in situations where the natural name may not.
George
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