Re: Fix pg_ctl restart bug - Mailing list pgsql-patches

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > However, as of 2004-10-15, this has not worked.  :-(  The attached patch
> > is the one that caused the bug --- on non-Unix systems, SYSTEMQUOTE is
> > "", meaning zero-length string.  I should have seen the bug when I
> > applied the contributed patch in 2004.
>
> So, shouldn't this fix be back-patched?

Well, no one has actually complained about the breakage, and it has been
a few years.  Also there is always the risk of a new bug being
introduced, so I am unsure.

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