Re: pg14 psql broke \d datname.nspname.relname

On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 8:38 AM Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 7:35 AM Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 3:08 PM Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Looks like this somehow broke on a Windows box:
> > >
> > > https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=jacana&dt=2022-04-20%2016%3A34%3A19
> >
> > So the issue here is that we are running this command:
> >
> > pg_dumpall --exclude-database .*
> >
> > And on that Windows machine, .* is being expanded to .gitignore, so
> > pg_dumpall prints:
> >
> > pg_dumpall: error: improper qualified name (too many dotted names): .gitignore
> >
> > Instead of:
> >
> > pg_dumpall: error: improper qualified name (too many dotted names): .*
> >
> > I don't know why that glob-expansion only happens on jacana, and I
> > don't know how to fix it, either.
>
> Perhaps bowerbird and jacana have different versions of IPC::Run?  I
> see some recent-ish changes to escaping logic in here from Noah:
>
> https://github.com/toddr/IPC-Run/commits/master/lib/IPC/Run/Win32Helper.pm
>
> Looks like the older version looks for meta characters not including
> '*', and the later one uses Win32::ShellQuote::quote_native.

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