Re: pgsql: pg_upgrade: quote directory names in delete_old_cluster script - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: pgsql: pg_upgrade: quote directory names in delete_old_cluster script
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Msg-id 54E2656B.5050706@gmx.net
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In response to Re: pgsql: pg_upgrade: quote directory names in delete_old_cluster script  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: pgsql: pg_upgrade: quote directory names in delete_old_cluster script
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On 2/16/15 4:44 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 12:02:44PM -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> On 2/11/15 10:06 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> pg_upgrade:  quote directory names in delete_old_cluster script
>>>
>>> This allows the delete script to properly function when special
>>> characters appear in directory paths, e.g. spaces.
>>
>> Wouldn't single quotes be better than double quotes if you want to
>> defend against special characters?
>
> I thought of that.  Windows only does double-quotes, I think, and I
> didn't see any value to doing a platform-specific quoting.  Do you?

All of our makefiles use single quotes, so effectively the only
character we don't support in directory paths is the single quote itself.




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