Tom Lane wrote:
> "none" <
nomind@...> writes:
>> I'm programming an application that uses psql (...) -c "ALTER DATABASE
>> \"MyBase\" RENAME TO \"MyBase2\" and it doesn't work because it looks for a
>> "mybase" database name.
>
> Works for me. I speculate that your scripting language is losing the
> embedded double-quotes somewhere before psql gets them. I don't know
> much about Windows scripting so it's hard to say more than that; but
> an extra interpretation pass over the command string would probably
> cause such a problem.
Most likely you're bit by the completely insane rules of quoting in the
windows commandshell. See for example the comments around it in
src/port.h in the PostgreSQL distribution.
//Magnus
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