Tom Lane wrote:
> > The solution to this is to change the following line in
> > src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c:
>
> We're not going to break a bunch of other applications in order to make
> some undocumented, unsupported Oracle thingie work (until they change
> it...). Got another solution?
Yes :^)
Upgrade to a recent Oracle Patch Set.
The problem is not a corner case, as it also affected user and machine
names (though I have no idea who would have parentheses or equality signs
in these) as well as programs run from directories with "bad characters"
in the name.
The problem is tracked as bug 3807408 by oracle and has been fixed in
9.2.0.8, 10.2.0.3 and 11.1.0.6.
If you don't want to upgrade, you can also apply the
One-Off Patch 3807408 which has been issued for 10.2.0.1 and 9.2.0.7
for most UNIX platforms.
I tested it with a C program named "parens (5432)" on Linux
with Oracle 10.2.0.4, and it works fine.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe