On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:17:11AM +0200, Marti Raudsepp wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> It seems that PostgreSQL 9.2.2 has a regression in pg_upgrade, the -o
> and -O options forget to add a space before passing on user options,
> thereby generating unparsable command lines.
> 
> For example:
> pg_upgrade -b /usr/local/pg91/bin -B /usr/bin -d /tmp/91 -D /tmp/92 -O -F
> [...]
> Creating catalog dump                                       ok
> *failure*
> could not connect to new postmaster started with the command:
> "/usr/bin/pg_ctl" -w -l "pg_upgrade_server.log" -D "/tmp/92" -o "-p
> 50432 -b -c synchronous_commit=off-F -c listen_addresses='' -c
> unix_socket_permissions=0700 -c unix_socket_directory='/tmp'" start
> 
> Notice the bad argument "synchronous_commit=off-F"
> 
> It's easy enough to work around by adding a space to the command line,
> passing -O ' -F' instead of -O '-F'
> 
> Here's the bad commit:
> http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=ed5699dd1b883e193930448b7ad532e233de0bd7;hp=5ed6546cf75623ba426942a3b71659a66cf7ed68
> 
> The attached patch re-introduces the space at the necessary place.

I was super-paranoid about making any changes in that area, but it seems
I wasn't paranoid enough.

Patch applied to head and 9.2.  Thanks for the workaround idea too.

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