Re: PATCH: add "--config-file=" option to pg_rewind

Am 27.02.22 um 13:06 schrieb Michael Paquier:
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 09:55:20AM +0100, Gunnar "Nick" Bluth wrote:
>> Am 26.02.22 um 06:51 schrieb Michael Paquier:
>>> Shouldn't this one use appendShellString() on config_file?
>>
>> It probably should, yes. I don't fancy this repetitive code myself.
>> But then, pg_rewind as a whole could use an overhaul. I don't see any use of
>> PQExpBuffer in it, but a lot of char* ...
>
> Having a lot of char* does not necessarily mean that all of them have
> to be changed to accomodate with PQExpBuffer. My guess that this is a
> case-by-case, where we should apply that in places where it makes the
> code cleaner to follow. In the case of your patch though, the two
> areas changed would make the logic correct, instead, because we have
> to apply correct quoting rules to any commands executed.

Alas! v3 attached.

>> GSOC project? ;-)
>
> It does not seem so, though there are surely more areas that could
> gain in clarity.

That's universally true ;-)

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