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Re: pg_ctl restart bug

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: <jmitchell@greatbridge.com>, <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-04-21T11:06:06Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs 
Tom Lane writes:

> !     eval '$po_path' '$POSTOPTS' $logopt '&'

> --- 323,335 ----

> !     eval '$po_path' $POSTOPTS $logopt '&'

Actually, I think it needs to be "$POSTOPTS" (double quoted), to preserve
whitespace.

peter ~$ opts="-N -o '-F   -S'"
peter ~$ eval ./argprint $opts
-N
-o
-F -S
peter ~$ eval ./argprint "$opts"
-N
-o
-F   -S
peter ~$ cat argprint
#!/bin/sh

for arg do
  echo "$arg"
done

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter