Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > On 8/20/16 3:05 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Make initdb's suggested "pg_ctl start" command line more reliable.
> A couple of problems with this: > The not-quoting-if-not-needed doesn't appear to do anything useful for me: > 'pg-install/bin/pg_ctl' -D 'pg-install/var/data' -l logfile start 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. > The indentation of that line was changed from 4 to 10. I don't think > that was a good change. Hmm, not intentional ... [ looks closely... ] Looks like a tab got in there somehow. Will fix. > As just mentioned elsewhere, this accidentally introduces a failure if > the PostgreSQL installation path contains LF/CR, because of the use of > appendShellString(). I think that's intentional, not accidental. What actual use case is there for allowing such paths? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers