| From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make initdb's suggested "pg_ctl start" command line more reliabl |
| Date: | 2016-09-06 17:23:11 |
| Message-ID: | 20160906172311.ngvezt24jak4tlgb@alap3.anarazel.de |
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On 2016-09-06 13:08:51 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Dash is considered a character that needs quoting. It might be possible
> to avoid that if we could be certain that appendShellString's output would
> never be placed in a spot where it could be taken for a switch, but that
> seems like a large assumption to me. Or maybe we could treat it as
> forcing quotes only if it starts the string; but I don't personally care
> enough to write the code for that. Feel free if you want to.
But quotes are interpreted by the shell, not by the called program. So I
don't think putting --whatnot in quotes changes anything here?
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