[551] in Moira
single-quotes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Rosenstein)
Thu Jan 14 16:07:43 1993
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 16:07:30 -0500
From: Mark Rosenstein <mar@MIT.EDU>
To: bug-moira@Athena.MIT.EDU
It turns out that single-quotes are a bigger problem than just
signatures. For example, the list "uts" contains lots of string
addresses like this:
Mark Opashinov '88 <opashinm@qucdn.queensu.ca>
Sam Roweis '90 <roweis@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
These were added with the previous moira server. Since they are now
single quotes in the database, they cannot be manipulated in any way
through the server. If you add a string with a single-quote to a
list, the quote gets doubled. But when you retrieve that data later,
it stays doubled.
It sounds like we should let it double all quotes on the way in, and
remove the doubling on all lookups. Then we just have to update the
old data to fit the new convention.
-Mark
