Re: Quoting in recovery.conf

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.

Regards,

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