pg_dumpall fails if a database name contains = - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject pg_dumpall fails if a database name contains =
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Msg-id 5124DB67.5050600@vmware.com
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Responses Re: pg_dumpall fails if a database name contains =  (Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>)
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~/pgsql.92stable$ bin/createdb "foo=bar"
~/pgsql.92stable$ bin/pg_dumpall > /dev/null
pg_dump: [archiver (db)] connection to database "(null)" failed: invalid
connection option "foo"
pg_dumpall: pg_dump failed on database "foo=bar", exiting

There are two bugs above:

1. When pg_dumpall passes the database name to pg_dump as a command line
argument, pg_dump interprets it as a connection string if it contains =.

2. When you pass an invalid connection string to pg_dump, it passes a
NULL pointer to printf when constructing the error message. It shows as
"(null)" above, but would segfault on other platforms.

- Heikki

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