Re: BUG #7514: postgres -k no longer works with spaces in the path - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

murrayc@murrayc.com writes:
> At some point, probably in 9.1.5, the -k option to Postgres ("Unix-domain
> socket location" in --help), stopped accepting paths that contain spaces.

> For instance,
> -k '/tmp/testglom2FPDKW/path with spaces/some_postgres_data'

> It now fails with this error:
> FATAL:  invalid list syntax for "unix_socket_directories"

Ah, you're using the latest Fedora packaging of 9.1.x, which includes a
back-ported version of the unix_socket_directories change that's in
HEAD.  -k now effectively takes a list of directory names, not just
one, and it's pickier about whitespace.

IIRC, you can make it work if you put double quotes around the
space-containing name, so it'd look like this:

    -k '"/blah blah blah"'


            regards, tom lane