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Re:PostgreSQL 9.2.4, 9.1.9, 9.0.13 and 8.4.17 released by danielweber on Thursday April 04, 2013 @12:31PM (#5493542)
Can someone follow up on this? Do you need the db name to already begin with "-" to exploit this?

EDIT: No, the problem is in parsing, not the existing names: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5492508

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Re:PostgreSQL 9.2.4, 9.1.9, 9.0.13 and 8.4.17 released by ashray on Thursday April 04, 2013 @12:56PM (#5493680)
Thanks for clearing that up. I read the commit notes but it wasn't 100% clear and I was quite sure there's more to it considering this was all so hush-hush!
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