On 09/26/2014 04:32 PM, Nelson Green wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Adrian Klaver
> Doubling the quote seems to work here.
>
>
> Thanks Bosco, DrakoRod, and Adrian. Between the three of you it became
> obvious
> that I was doing something wrong. And yes, in the end you were right.
> Doubling
> the quote does indeed work.
>
> It turns out it this particular password also had a \ in it, and my console
> width wrapped right before it, putting it as the first character on the next
> line, where I just didn't notice it until a few minutes ago. I changed
> that to
> a ^ for the time being, and then doubled the quote whereupon it all
> worked. I
> will certainly look into how to escape the backslash too, but that's for
> next
> week at this point.
aklaver@panda:~> psql 'dbname=test user=test_user password=test\\pwd'
psql (9.0.17)
Type "help" for help.
test=>
>
> Apologies for the noise. Just been one of those days.
>
> Thanks,
> Nelson
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