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diff --git a/src/port/path.c b/src/port/path.c
index 2a7428d0ba6..50f6476f427 100644
--- a/src/port/path.c
+++ b/src/port/path.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/port/path.c,v 1.28 2004/08/12 18:32:52 momjian Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/port/path.c,v 1.29 2004/08/12 19:03:44 momjian Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -88,8 +88,17 @@ last_dir_separator(const char *filename)
/*
- * make_native_path
- * On WIN32, change / to \ in the path.
+ * make_native_path - on WIN32, change / to \ in the path
+ *
+ * This is required because WIN32 COPY is an internal CMD.EXE
+ * command and doesn't process forward slashes in the same way
+ * as external commands. Quoting the first argument to COPY
+ * does not convert forward to backward slashes, but COPY does
+ * properly process quoted forward slashes in the second argument.
+ *
+ * COPY works with quoted forward slashes in the first argument
+ * only if the current directory is the same as the directory
+ * of the first argument.
*/
void
make_native_path(char *filename)