Actually the answer is NO.
The backtick are only used for identifiers like table names, databases, etc.
The thing you were showing up, "@", is just a usual string. Of course I
could replace it with single quotes instead of the double ones I was
using in order to have consistent quoting, but it doesn't affect the
problem ... :(
XhE
Luuk wrote:
should u not do this;
user_query = "SELECT CONCAT('/home/vmail/', domain.name, '/',
address.local, '/.maildir/') AS home, 1101 AS uid, 1101 AS gid FROM
user, `#user_address`, address, domain WHERE user.id =
`#user_address`.user_id AND `#user_address`.address_id = address.id AND
address.domain_id = domain.id AND user.name=LEFT('%u',
LOCATE('@','%u')-1) AND CONCAT(address.local, '@', domain.name) =
MID('%u', LOCATE('@','%u')+1) "
so, also change: LOCATE("@",'%u')
to: LOCATE('@','%u')
(two times in yout query)
Luuk
Luuk you're absolutely right - I have to use the backtick. But
unfortunately dovecot doesn't let me do that.
And further as an example (actually a pretty complicate one):
user_query = SELECT CONCAT('/home/vmail/', domain.name, '/',
address.local, '/.maildir/') AS home, 1101 AS uid, 1101 AS gid FROM
user, `#user_address`, address, domain WHERE user.id =
`#user_address`.user_id AND `#user_address`.address_id = address.id AND
address.domain_id = domain.id AND user.name=LEFT('%u',
LOCATE("@",'%u')-1) AND CONCAT(address.local, '@', domain.name) =
MID('%u', LOCATE("@",'%u')+1)
If I change the table's name to one, which doesn't need backtick
escaping the upper query works. Dovecot somehow doesn't get along with
the backtick ....
Regards,
XhE
Luuk wrote:
Hi,
for more info see:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/identifiers.html
where is stated: "The identifier quote character is the backtick (‘`’):"
greetings,
Luuk
On 26.8.2007, at 3.41, XhE wrote:
Found a problem with dovecot 1.0.3 and mysql authentication
I got a problem with escaping of mysql table names. Usually, when a
mysql table name has some special character (in my case there is a
table beginning with the # character) one has to put into these
special quotes --- ` ---; others like ' oder " are not recognized.
But dovecot somehow doesn't allow me to do that.
I don't know what you mean by putting into special quotes. Can you
given an example? But if you tried to use # it would be treated as a
comment, so you'd have to put the whole setting inside quotes:
password_query = "select password, from #table where .."
