The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference: 2269
Logged by: Ken
Email address: kgerdes (AT) opushealthcare (DOT) com
PostgreSQL version: 7.3.4
Operating system: Linux
Description: cannot connect to postgres database on Linux
Details:

I just downloaded pgAdminIII for Windows to use to connect to our postgres
databases on Linux. The problem I have is that when I enter the password, I
get this error:

Error has occurred
Error connecting to the server: missing "=" after """ in connection info
string.

The passwords to our databases contain the characters ; and ', which is what
is probably causing this problem. Can this be resolved or is there a temp
fix to get around this problem?

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=20

I've committed fixes to pgAdmin which was incorrectly escaping single
quotes with another single quote (in the same way as we do for string
values in SQL).=20

Thanks for the report.

Regards, Dave.

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