On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:27:54AM +0100, Albe Laurenz wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > > The solution to this is to change the following line in > > > src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c: > > > > We're not going to break a bunch of other applications in order to make > > some undocumented, unsupported Oracle thingie work (until they change > > it...). Got another solution? > > Yes :^) > Upgrade to a recent Oracle Patch Set.
OK, I'm not taking on responsibility for a *fixed* Oracle bug, so that's what I've put in the README.Oracle :) Cheers, David. > > The problem is not a corner case, as it also affected user and machine > names (though I have no idea who would have parentheses or equality signs > in these) as well as programs run from directories with "bad characters" > in the name. > > The problem is tracked as bug 3807408 by oracle and has been fixed in > 9.2.0.8, 10.2.0.3 and 11.1.0.6. > If you don't want to upgrade, you can also apply the > One-Off Patch 3807408 which has been issued for 10.2.0.1 and 9.2.0.7 > for most UNIX platforms. > > I tested it with a C program named "parens (5432)" on Linux > with Oracle 10.2.0.4, and it works fine. > > Yours, > Laurenz Albe > > -- > Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers