Re: getting "shell command argument contains a newline or carriage return:" error with pg_dumpall when db name have new line in double quote

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Mahendra Singh Thalor <mahi6run(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Srinath Reddy <srinath2133(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: getting "shell command argument contains a newline or carriage return:" error with pg_dumpall when db name have new line in double quote
Date: 2025-04-11 14:47:49
Message-ID: Z_krlRC0ifpW3clw@nathan
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On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 11:58:41PM +0530, Mahendra Singh Thalor wrote:
> As per above discussions, for v18, we will not do any change to server
> side to fix the issue of \n\r in database names. But as a cleanup
> patch, we can give an alert to the user by "pg_upgrade --check". As
> per current code, pg_dump and pg_upgrade will fail with "shell
> command" error but in the attached patch, we will give some extra info
> to the user by "pg_upgrade --check" so that they can fix database
> names before trying to upgrade.
>
> Here, I am attaching a patch which will give a list of invalid
> database names in "pg_upgrade --check". We can consider this as a
> cleanup patch.

Are you proposing this for v18? I think this is all v19 material at this
point. Perhaps we could argue this is a bug fix that should be
back-patched, but IMHO that's a bit of a stretch. I don't sense a
tremendous amount of urgency, either.

--
nathan

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