Ari Kahn <akahn1@xxxxxxx> writes: > On Apr 25, 2006, at 3:25 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >> If so, I'm wondering if you've got a database with a carriage return >> embedded in the name, or something like that. > That was a good idea. But this is not the case. > postgres=# drop database "\n"; > ERROR: database "\n" does not exist > postgres=# drop database "\r"; > ERROR: database "\r" does not exist Those tests have little to do with what I'm worried about. Backslash isn't an escape character in SQL names, and even if it were, your tests only checked for databases named exactly "one newline" or "one carriage return", not for names comprising those characters along with others. regards, tom lane
