On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.kla...@aklaver.com> wrote:
> On 09/26/2014 12:58 PM, Nelson Green wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I am setting up a streaming replication stand-by, and the replication >> role password has a single quote in it. I am unable to properly >> reference the password in the conninfo setting of recovery.conf so it >> will authenticate to the master. Doubling the quote gives me a syntax >> error, and escaping it or quoting it with double-quotes gives me an >> authentication error. The password is correct because I can copy it from >> the recovery.conf and supply it when prompted by pg_basebackup, so if I >> may, what is the proper way to handle single quotes within the conninfo >> string? >> > > > Doubling the quote seems to work here. > Thanks Bosco, DrakoRod, and Adrian. Between the three of you it became obvious that I was doing something wrong. And yes, in the end you were right. Doubling the quote does indeed work. It turns out it this particular password also had a \ in it, and my console width wrapped right before it, putting it as the first character on the next line, where I just didn't notice it until a few minutes ago. I changed that to a ^ for the time being, and then doubled the quote whereupon it all worked. I will certainly look into how to escape the backslash too, but that's for next week at this point. Apologies for the noise. Just been one of those days. Thanks, Nelson
