| From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | none <nomind(at)mailinator(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: BUG #4337: psql -c case insensitive |
| Date: | 2008-08-01 14:27:52 |
| Message-ID: | 48931D68.8030406@hagander.net |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> "none" <nomind(at)mailinator(dot)com> writes:
>> I'm programming an application that uses psql (...) -c "ALTER DATABASE
>> \"MyBase\" RENAME TO \"MyBase2\" and it doesn't work because it looks for a
>> "mybase" database name.
>
> Works for me. I speculate that your scripting language is losing the
> embedded double-quotes somewhere before psql gets them. I don't know
> much about Windows scripting so it's hard to say more than that; but
> an extra interpretation pass over the command string would probably
> cause such a problem.
Most likely you're bit by the completely insane rules of quoting in the
windows commandshell. See for example the comments around it in
src/port.h in the PostgreSQL distribution.
//Magnus
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