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commit f20b79059ea392ef3cef084033508d5d43bf20d9
Author: David Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>
Date: Tue Jan 06 04:30:57 2026 +0000
Fix issue with EVENT TRIGGERS and ALTER PUBLICATION
When processing the "publish" options of an ALTER PUBLICATION command,
we call SplitIdentifierString() to split the options into a List of
strings. Since SplitIdentifierString() modifies the delimiter
character and puts NULs in their place, this would overwrite the memory
of the AlterPublicationStmt. Later in AlterPublicationOptions(), the
modified AlterPublicationStmt is copied for event triggers, which would
result in the event trigger only seeing the first "publish" option
rather than all options that were specified in the command.
To fix this, make a copy of the string before passing to
SplitIdentifierString().
Here we also adjust a similar case in the pgoutput plugin. There's no
known issues caused by SplitIdentifierString() here, so this is being
done out of paranoia.
Thanks to Henson Choi for putting together an example case showing the
ALTER PUBLICATION issue.
Author: sunil s <sunilfeb26@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Henson Choi <assam258@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: zengman <zengman@halodbtech.com>
Backpatch-through: 14
src/backend/commands/publicationcmds.c | 7 ++++++-
src/backend/replication/pgoutput/pgoutput.c | 6 +++++-
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/commands/publicationcmds.c b/src/backend/commands/publicationcmds.c
index 473c72eae51..b9bd33b252e 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/publicationcmds.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/publicationcmds.c
@@ -122,7 +122,12 @@ parse_publication_options(ParseState *pstate,
pubactions->pubtruncate = false;
*publish_given = true;
- publish = defGetString(defel);
+
+ /*
+ * SplitIdentifierString destructively modifies its input, so make
+ * a copy so we don't modify the memory of the executing statement
+ */
+ publish = pstrdup(defGetString(defel));
if (!SplitIdentifierString(publish, ',', &publish_list))
ereport(ERROR,
diff --git a/src/backend/replication/pgoutput/pgoutput.c b/src/backend/replication/pgoutput/pgoutput.c
index f3acc64c451..7ae31b0acce 100644
--- a/src/backend/replication/pgoutput/pgoutput.c
+++ b/src/backend/replication/pgoutput/pgoutput.c
@@ -342,7 +342,11 @@ parse_output_parameters(List *options, PGOutputData *data)
errmsg("conflicting or redundant options")));
publication_names_given = true;
- if (!SplitIdentifierString(strVal(defel->arg), ',',
+ /*
+ * Pass a copy of the DefElem->arg since SplitIdentifierString
+ * modifies its input.
+ */
+ if (!SplitIdentifierString(pstrdup(strVal(defel->arg)), ',',
&data->publication_names))
ereport(ERROR,
(errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_NAME),
[parent: ec8d91c7e78c]