On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 01:08:32PM +0000, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Replace SYSTEMQUOTEs with Windows-specific wrapper functions.
>
> It's easy to forget using SYSTEMQUOTEs when constructing command strings
> for system() or popen(). Even if we fix all the places missing it now, it is
> bound to be forgotten again in the future. Introduce wrapper functions that
> do the the extra quoting for you, and get rid of SYSTEMQUOTEs in all the
> callers.
>
> We previosly used SYSTEMQUOTEs in all the hard-coded command strings, and
> this doesn't change the behavior of those. But user-supplied commands, like
> archive_command, restore_command, COPY TO/FROM PROGRAM calls, as well as
> pgbench's \shell, will now gain an extra pair of quotes. That is desirable,
> but if you have existing scripts or config files that include an extra
> pair of quotes, those might need to be adjusted.
Should this be mentioned as an incompatibility in the 9.4 release notes?
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