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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Cc: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Cc: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Cc: michael@paquier.xyz
Cc: gurjeet@singh.im
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Unprivileged user can induce crash by using an SUSET param in PGOPTIONS
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2022 12:04:33 -0400
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=?utf-8?Q?Dagfinn_Ilmari_Manns=C3=A5ker?= <ilmari@ilmari.org> writes:
> Thanks!  Just one minor nitpick: setting an %ENV entry to `undef`
> doesn't unset the environment variable, it sets it to the empty string.
> To unset a variable it needs to be deleted from %ENV, i.e. `delete
> $ENV{PGUSER};`.

Ah.  Still, libpq doesn't distinguish, so the test works anyway.
Not sure if it's worth changing.

			regards, tom lane





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