From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 21:46:40 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Don't uselessly escape a string that doesn't need escaping
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0994cfc0ac853de4245f003698160fe1b8c577bd;p=postgresql

Don't uselessly escape a string that doesn't need escaping

Per gripe from Ian Barwick

Co-authored-by: Ian Barwick <ian@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABvVfJWNnNKb8cHsTLhkTsvL1+G6BVcV+57+w1JZ61p8YGPdWQ@mail.gmail.com
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diff --git a/src/bin/pg_basebackup/pg_basebackup.c b/src/bin/pg_basebackup/pg_basebackup.c
index 77a7c148ba..9207109ba3 100644
--- a/src/bin/pg_basebackup/pg_basebackup.c
+++ b/src/bin/pg_basebackup/pg_basebackup.c
@@ -1716,9 +1716,9 @@ GenerateRecoveryConf(PGconn *conn)
 
 	if (replication_slot)
 	{
-		escaped = escape_quotes(replication_slot);
-		appendPQExpBuffer(recoveryconfcontents, "primary_slot_name = '%s'\n", replication_slot);
-		free(escaped);
+		/* unescaped: ReplicationSlotValidateName allows [a-z0-9_] only */
+		appendPQExpBuffer(recoveryconfcontents, "primary_slot_name = '%s'\n",
+						  replication_slot);
 	}
 
 	if (PQExpBufferBroken(recoveryconfcontents) ||