[Dovecot] authentication with mysql - problem with table name escaping

[Luuk]

Hi,

for more info see:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/identifiers.html
where is stated: "The identifier quote character is the backtick (‘`’):"

greetings,
Luuk

> On 26.8.2007, at 3.41, XhE wrote:
>
>> Found a problem with dovecot 1.0.3 and mysql authentication
>>
>> I got a problem with escaping of mysql table names. Usually, when a
>> mysql table name has some special character (in my case there is a
>> table beginning with the # character) one has to put into these
>> special quotes --- ` ---; others like ' oder " are not recognized.
>> But dovecot somehow doesn't allow me to do that.
>
> I don't know what you mean by putting into special quotes. Can you
> given an example? But if you tried to use # it would be treated as a
> comment, so you'd have to put the whole setting inside quotes:
>
> password_query = "select password, from #table where .."
>
>