> Hi !
> 
> I discovered this particular feature in "createdb" tool 
> 8.0.0beta4 running on Win32 Platform:


> c:\windows> createdb testdb;
> CREATE DATABASE

<snip>

> testdb;=# \l
>         List of databases
>    Name    |  Owner   | Encoding
> -----------+----------+-----------
>  template0 | postgres | SQL_ASCII
>  template1 | postgres | SQL_ASCII
>  testdb;   | silvio   | SQL_ASCII
> (4 rows)
> 
> testdb;=#
> 
> -------------------- Cut And Paste ---------------------------
> 
> As you can see, createddb doesn't skip the semicolon after 
> the database's name, so you have a db name ending with 
> semicolon. This is not a problem really, but this happens 
> only in this version/platform.

I don't think this is a postgresql issue, really. It's a shell issue.

sh/bash or whatever you're running on a unix platform has ; as a command
separator. The win32 command prompt does not. (For example, run "echo
foo; echo bar" and notice the differences between bash and cmd). If you
run the command under a bash interpreter (or other shell that uses
semicolon as command separator) on win32, you will se the unix like
behaviour.

Not sure if we want to add a workaround for that? It'd be needed for
every single command, so I personally don't think it's a good idea.

//Magnus


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