Re: pg_restore recognizing $-quotes

Bruce Momjian said:
>
> This is quite a large patch, but we do need a solution to this problem.
>  Should it be applied?
>
>

I looked at it briefly, but felt sufficiently daunted that I gave up until I
have time to review it (my time is extremely limited right now).

ISTM that a very simple alternative would be to force pg_dump to inhibit
dollar quoting for non-text dumps. Then we could revisit the issue later on,
and maybe bite the bullet and use flex in pg_restore.

cheers

andrew


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> Philip Warner wrote:
>>
>> Not sure if this is the desired approach, but since it works, I
>> thought I'd  send it.
>>
>> This patch allows pg_restore to recognize $-quotes in SQL queries. It
>> will  treat any unquoted string that starts with a $ and has no
>> preceding  identifier chars as a potential $-quote tag, it then makes
>> sure that the  tag chars are valid. If so, it processes the $-quote.
>>
>> Tested against local DBs and regression DB.