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-rw-r--r--src/bin/initdb/initdb.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c b/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c
index b088604447b..d9d8e0d480f 100644
--- a/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c
+++ b/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
* Portions taken from FreeBSD.
*
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c,v 1.64 2004/10/22 22:30:57 tgl Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c,v 1.65 2004/10/24 15:55:29 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -407,6 +407,9 @@ readfile(char *path)
/*
* write an array of lines to a file
+ *
+ * This is only used to write text files. Use fopen "w" not PG_BINARY_W
+ * so that the resulting configuration files are nicely editable on Windows.
*/
static void
writefile(char *path, char **lines)
@@ -414,7 +417,7 @@ writefile(char *path, char **lines)
FILE *out_file;
char **line;
- if ((out_file = fopen(path, PG_BINARY_W)) == NULL)
+ if ((out_file = fopen(path, "w")) == NULL)
{
fprintf(stderr, _("%s: could not open file \"%s\" for writing: %s\n"),
progname, path, strerror(errno));