Re: Ticket 266: Unable to backup table when quotation marks used in the name

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>
Cc: Ashesh Vashi <ashesh(dot)vashi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgadmin-hackers <pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Ticket 266: Unable to backup table when quotation marks used in the name
Date: 2010-11-19 13:47:08
Message-ID: AANLkTikiVmr=S2MTe3m0Cci_zVhjZXb5Ed1FHd5zSajV@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
<guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
> Le 18/11/2010 09:08, Guillaume Lelarge a écrit :
>> Le 18/11/2010 05:25, Ashesh Vashi a écrit :
>>> Hi Guillaume,
>>>
>>> As long as I do remember, the commandLineClenOption() function was
>>> introduced, because of the command-line parameter behaves differently with
>>> quote on different platforms.
>>>
>>
>> I figured that but there's no OS specific code.
>>
>>> Though - I have tested your patch (Sorry - I do not have enough time to
>>> spend around pgAdmin now-a-days because of the work load).
>>> But It will be good - if you can please test the patch on all the platform
>>> (specially on windows) with quote in the name for table, user-name, etc
>>> before applying this patch.
>>
>> I did quite a lot of tests:
>>
>>  * on Linux
>>
>> ticket266=# \d
>>          List of relations
>>  Schema | Name | Type  |   Owner
>> --------+------+-------+-----------
>>  S"1    | TN5  | table | guillaume
>>  S"1    | tn2  | table | guillaume
>>  public | T1   | table | guillaume
>>  public | t"3  | table | guillaume
>>  public | t2   | table | guillaume
>> (5 rows)
>>
>>  * on Windows, much more but I don't have the list here (I created
>>    tables like t1, t"1, t "1, t" 1, t " 1, and the same for schemas)
>>
>> I'll try to have a set of tests to try on the different platforms.
>> Unfortunately, I still can't test on MacOSX.
>>
>
> I checked on Linux and Windows, and it works great on both. If someone
> can try my patch on Mac OS X, you'll find attached a custom (-Fc) backup
> of a small database with every kind of strangely named objects.

I tried backing up all the oddly named tables on OSX, and didn't get any errors.

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