Excerpts from Richard Huxton's message of lun dic 19 16:33:31 -0300 2011: > On 19/12/11 16:48, Robert Haas wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Ross Reedstrom<reeds...@rice.edu> wrote: > >> This should either be fixed by changing the documentation to say to not > >> escape > >> colons or backslashes in the password part, only, or modify this function > >> (PasswordFromFile) to silently unescape the password string. It already > >> copies > >> it. > > > > My vote is for a doc correction in the back-branches and a behavior > > change in master. > > Seems sensible - presumably mentioning "this will be corrected in 9.2"? > > It's clearly not what you'd call "urgent" since nobody else seems to > have noticed before now.
Yeah, it is a pretty old bug -- this code was clearly written by some rookie that didn't know very well what he was doing. -- Álvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
