Re: Non-text mode for pg_dumpall - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Álvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Non-text mode for pg_dumpall
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Msg-id 202503111705.xy7fddu36qae@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: Non-text mode for pg_dumpall  (Mahendra Singh Thalor <mahi6run@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Non-text mode for pg_dumpall
Re: Non-text mode for pg_dumpall
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Hello,

On 2025-Mar-11, Mahendra Singh Thalor wrote:

> In map.dat file, I tried to fix this issue by adding number of characters
> in dbname but as per code comments, as of now, we are not supporting \n\r
> in dbnames so i removed handling.
> I will do some more study to fix this issue.

Yeah, I think this is saying that you should not consider the contents
of map.dat as a shell string.  After all, you're not going to _execute_
that file via the shell.

Maybe for map.dat you need to escape such characters somehow, so that
they don't appear as literal newlines/carriage returns.

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Álvaro Herrera        Breisgau, Deutschland  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/



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