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From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Forbid use of LF and CR characters in database and role names
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Msg-id 5a62e31d-afd6-c638-be9d-24184ec0c46b@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Forbid use of LF and CR characters in database and role names  (Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Forbid use of LF and CR characters in database and role names  (Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>)
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On 8/11/16 9:12 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> Note that pg_dump[all] and pg_upgrade already have safeguards against
> those things per the same routines putting quotes for execution as
> commands into psql and shell. So attached is a patch to implement this
> restriction in the backend,

How about some documentation?  I think the CREATE ROLE and CREATE
DATABASE man pages might be suitable places.

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Peter Eisentraut              http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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