Re: Quoting in recovery.conf

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-04-06T16:48:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 16:07 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
>> <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>>> To follow up on the discussion here:
>>>
>>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-docs/2010-02/msg00039.php
>>>
>>> It seems like a big oversight that there's no way to insert quotes in
>>> strings in recovery.conf. In the long run, the parsing should be done
>>> the same way as postgresql.conf, or the two files be merged altogether,
>>> but right now I think we should just add support for escaping quotes. I
>>> propose two quotes '' to mean a quote mark in the string, like in
>>> strings in SQL queries.
>> Agreed. This would be useful for users to specify the application_name
>> containing a space in the primary_conninfo, for example.
> 
> +1

Ok, here's what I came up with.

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