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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: pgsql: Fix some cases of indirectly casting away const.
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:20:05 +0000
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)

Fix some cases of indirectly casting away const.

Newest versions of gcc+glibc are able to detect cases where code
implicitly casts away const by assigning the result of strchr() or
a similar function applied to a "const char *" value to a target
variable that's just "char *".  This of course creates a hazard of
not getting a compiler warning about scribbling on a string one was
not supposed to, so fixing up such cases is good.

This patch fixes a dozen or so places where we were doing that.
Most are trivial additions of "const" to the target variable,
since no actually-hazardous change was occurring.

Thanks to Bertrand Drouvot for finding a couple more spots than
I had.

This commit back-patches relevant portions of 8f1791c61 and
9f7565c6c into supported branches.  However, there are two
places in ecpg (in v18 only) where a proper fix is more
complicated than seems appropriate for a back-patch.  I opted
to silence those two warnings by adding casts.

Author: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot <[email protected]>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
Backpatch-through: 14-18

Branch
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REL_17_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a56a70141e09df5401a341dab29a77bafb42c8b6

Modified Files
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src/backend/catalog/pg_type.c             | 2 +-
src/backend/tsearch/spell.c               | 2 +-
src/backend/utils/adt/formatting.c        | 5 +++--
src/backend/utils/adt/pg_locale.c         | 2 +-
src/backend/utils/adt/xid8funcs.c         | 2 +-
src/bin/pg_waldump/pg_waldump.c           | 2 +-
src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c                 | 2 +-
src/common/compression.c                  | 2 +-
src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/datetime.c | 4 ++--
src/port/getopt.c                         | 2 +-
src/port/getopt_long.c                    | 2 +-
src/port/win32setlocale.c                 | 8 ++++----
src/test/regress/pg_regress.c             | 2 +-
src/timezone/zic.c                        | 2 +-
14 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

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