Re: EXTERNAL: Re: Database name with semicolon

Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@xxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 27 Jun 2018 16:47:41 +0200

Hi

2018-06-27 16:39 GMT+02:00 Joby John <Joby.John@nccgroup.trust>:

Hi Pavel,

Thanks for coming back to me.

please, don't top post  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Top-posting

The version of the Postgres server where I am trying is: 9.5.3

9.5 is modern Postgres. There should not be problems with names.

Yes, I tried putting the database name in double quotes with no luck.
Please note we are using PostgreSQL Unicode ODBC driver (version 10.2) to communicate with the server.

looks like ODBC issue - semicolon has some semantic there

 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22398212/escape-semicolon-in-odbc-connection-string-in-app-config-file

but probably you read these pages

Maybe some combination of quotes is necessary 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/ms722656(v=vs.85)

you can try 

dbname = '"ssss; sss"'

Regards,
Joby John

From: Pavel Stehule [mailto:pavel.stehule@gmail.com]

Sent: 27 June 2018 15:26

To: Joby John <Joby.John@nccgroup.trust>

Cc: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: Database name with semicolon

Hi

2018-06-27 15:22 GMT+02:00 Joby John <Joby.John@nccgroup.trust>:

Hi,

We have a windows application which communicate to Postgres database via PostgreSQL ODBC drivers for windows.
One of our customers has a database with semicolon in its name (e.g.: “db; name”) and our application is failing to establish connection to that database saying like it could not
 find the database.
We tried all known possibilities by enclosing the DB name under quotes, curly brackets etc. but none solved the problem.

I wonder whether there is any possible way to achieve connection to such database. If not, probably it’s better not to support semicolons within the database name.
Not sure whether I need to submit this query as a bug or not. Any help is much appreciated.

modern Postgresql has not any problems with special chars

postgres=# create database "bad name ;;;;";

CREATE DATABASE

postgres=# \q

[pavel@nemesis ~]$ psql 'bad name ;;;;'

psql (11beta1)

Type "help" for help.

bad name ;;;;=# 

What is version of Postgres?

Did you try double quotes?

Regards

Pavel

Thanks and Regards,
Joby John

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