Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Hmm, that suggests that our code works *only* if there's white space in > >> all the paths !? Seems unlikely that this description is fully correct, > >> or we'd have had problems before. > > > It is saying _all_ these have to be true, and we already quote > > executables, and the string, so we always have more than two quotes: > > Well, the description is about as clear as mud, because it's not saying > which two quote characters it's talking about. I read it as talking > about the two quote characters around any one word/pathname. If you > think it's talking about the two quote characters we put around the > whole command (the SYSTEMQUOTE dodge), then we're certainly going to > fail the "no special characters" test, because all these commands use > I/O redirection symbols.
Right, the top says: * 1. If all of the following conditions are met, then quote characters * on the _command_ _line_ are preserved: It is talking about the entire command string, because this is system() and there is no distinction between commands and arguments --- it is one big string. -- Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
