[Gnumed-devel] amis.conf

[Karsten Hilbert]

Hilmar,

just a quick hint:

When writing query strings into a config file it is probably
better to use lists (even if they only ever contain one item)
since those can safely contain otherwise special characters
such as ";" or "#". Else you might run into the following
problem:

 query = select * from irc_channel where name like "#kern~"

You'd expect to retrieve a list of channels containing
#kernelnewbies, #kerneltraffic and such. However, since the
get() logic truncates at the # in "#kern~" thinking the
remainder is a comment you'd actually end up with a parse
error at best or an erroneously empty list of channels in the
worst case (note the reverse logic of how the technically
succeeding case is actually worse semantically).

In contrast

 query = $query$
 select * from irc_channel where name like "#kern~"
 $query$

suffers none of those pitfalls.

Karsten
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