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Marc G. Fournier 3a3c1b85a3 From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
I see someone missed an ancient bit of shell-scripting lore:
on some older shells, if your script's argument list is empty,
then "$@" generates an empty-string word rather than no word
at all.  You need to write ${1+"$@"} to get the latter behavior.
(Read your shell man page to see exactly how that works,
but it does the Right Thing on every Bourne shell.)

In particular, pg_dumpall fails when invoked without any switches
on HPUX 9.*, because pg_dump gets an empty-string argument that it
thinks is the name of the database to dump.  I expect this bug
also affects some other OSes, but couldn't tell you just which ones.
Patch attached.
1998-07-09 03:35:39 +00:00
contrib > Sure send it in, we can put it in contrib. > > > > > I wrote a 1998-06-16 17:53:44 +00:00
doc From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> 1998-07-09 03:30:49 +00:00
migration Update for 6.3.2 1998-04-07 21:01:28 +00:00
src From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> 1998-07-09 03:35:39 +00:00
COPYRIGHT From: David Friend <dfriend@atlsci.atlsci.com> 1997-05-11 06:18:33 +00:00
HISTORY Update HISTORY/TODO. Disable HAVING. 1998-04-17 04:12:56 +00:00
INSTALL Here are two patches to fix up the c++ (and c) support in the 1998-06-16 03:28:58 +00:00
README Update for 6.3.2 1998-04-07 21:01:28 +00:00
register.txt update to say "most advanced". 1998-06-08 16:43:15 +00:00

PostgreSQL Data Base Management System (formerly known as Postgres, then
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