Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add function to import operating systemcollations - Mailing list pgsql-committers

On 1/19/17 7:53 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Hm.  I see that the patch randomly changed the way that the collation
> owner is generated ... looks like it no longer works for mixed-case
> usernames.  Perhaps follow this model instead:
>
>     if (superuser_password)
>         PG_CMD_PRINTF2("ALTER USER \"%s\" WITH PASSWORD E'%s';\n\n",
>                        username, escape_quotes(superuser_password));
>
> although TBH that doesn't look too darn safe either.  I wonder how
> initdb has gotten along so far with no quote_ident() function.

We could just use the numeric value, like in the attached patch.

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