Make directory name comparisons on Win32 case insensitive.

This method will not catch all different ways since the locale
handling in NTFS doesn't provide an easy way to do that, but it
will hopefully solve the most common cases causing startup
problems when the backend is found in the system PATH.

Attempts to fix bug #4694.

diff --git a/src/port/path.c b/src/port/path.c
index d353e6e17d10b9d3480c1417db3d02562a3c79ed..c95cc7dcc53910e3c176c44dff0c2674846231e6 100644 (file)
--- a/src/port/path.c
+++ b/src/port/path.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *       $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/port/path.c,v 1.74 2008/01/01 19:46:00 momjian Exp $
+ *       $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/port/path.c,v 1.74.2.1 2009/04/03 11:52:12 mha Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -427,7 +427,12 @@ dir_strcmp(const char *s1, const char *s2)
 {
        while (*s1 && *s2)
        {
+#ifndef WIN32
                if (*s1 != *s2 &&
+#else
+                       /* On windows, paths are case-insensitive */
+               if (pg_tolower(*s1) != pg_tolower(*s2) &&
+#endif
                        !(IS_DIR_SEP(*s1) && IS_DIR_SEP(*s2)))
                        return (int) *s1 - (int) *s2;
                s1++, s2++;