Re: pgsql/src/bin/pg_dump pg_dumpall.sh

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql/src/bin/pg_dump pg_dumpall.sh
Date: 2002-04-11 21:16:42
Message-ID: 200204112116.g3BLGgY04513@candle.pha.pa.us
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OK, done. I successfully dumpall'ed a database called " x y ". :-)

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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > momjian(at)postgresql(dot)org (Bruce Momjian - CVS) writes:
> > > Modified files:
> > > src/bin/pg_dump: pg_dumpall.sh
> >
> > > Log message:
> > > Fix pg_upgrade to handle dbnames, user/group names with spaces.
> >
> > I think it's illusory to imagine that this fixes the issue. Unless
> > "read"'s behavior is more tightly specified than I think, you are still
> > gonna have trouble with leading, trailing, or consecutive blanks.
>
> Yes, it does fail on leading/trailing spaces, but it is better than it
> was before.
>
> > I'm also concerned that you've opened up portability issues concerning
> > newlines embedded in shell literals (eg, does that sed command portably
> > do what you think?).
>
> I certainly think so. It is:
>
> echo "a b c" | sed 's/ /\
> /g'
>
> outputs:
>
> a
> b
> c
>
> Embedding backslash-n in 'sed' is a portability problem.
>
> Clearly read has problems:
>
> #$ read X
> a b
> #$ echo $X
> a b
>
> I could so IFS="newline" to handle the space issue. Let me try that.
>
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