Re: password in recovery.conf

On 09/26/2014 12:58 PM, Nelson Green wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am setting up a streaming replication stand-by, and the replication
> role password has a single quote in it. I am unable to properly
> reference the password in the conninfo setting of recovery.conf so it
> will authenticate to the master. Doubling the quote gives me a syntax
> error, and escaping it or quoting it with double-quotes gives me an
> authentication error. The password is correct because I can copy it from
> the recovery.conf and supply it when prompted by pg_basebackup, so if I
> may, what is the proper way to handle single quotes within the conninfo
> string?

Doubling the quote seems to work here.

aklaver(at)panda:~> psql 'dbname=test user=test_user password=test''pwd'
psql (9.0.17)
Type "help" for help.

test=>

What is the syntax error you get?

Another option:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/standby-settings.html

A password needs to be provided too, if the primary demands password
authentication. It can be provided in the primary_conninfo string, or in
a separate ~/.pgpass file on the standby server (use replication as the
database name)

So you might look at setting up a .pgpass
file(http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/libpq-pgpass.html)

>
> Obviously I can change the password, but we use an automated password
> generator so I'd like to not have to keep generating passwords, and
> checking them, until I get one that will work, unless that my only option.
>
> Thanks,
> Nelson

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