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? -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
