From: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: createdb compares strategy as case-sensitive
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2024 21:34:47 +0200
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On 4/21/24 17:10, Tom Lane wrote:
> Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>> On 4/21/24 00:19, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> I'm not suggesting that this is an interesting security vulnerability,
>>> because if you can control the arguments to createdb it's probably
>>> game over long since. But wrapping the arguments is good for
>>> delivering on-point error messages. So I'd add a fmtId() call to
>>> LOCALE_PROVIDER too.
>
>> OK, the attached 0001 patch does these three things - adds the fmtId()
>> for locale_provider, make the comparison case-insensitive for strategy
>> and also removes the comma from the hint.
>
> LGTM.
>
Pushed, after tweaking the commit message a bit.
>> The createdb vs. CREATE DATABASE difference made me look if we have any
>> regression tests for CREATE DATABASE, and we don't. I guess it would be
>> good to have some, so I added a couple, for some of the parameters, see
>> 0002. But there's a problem with the locale stuff - this seems to work
>> in plain "make check", but pg_upgrade creates the clusters with
>> different providers etc. which changes the expected output. I'm not sure
>> there's a good way to deal with this ...
>
> Probably not worth the trouble, really.
>
Agreed.
regards
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Tomas Vondra
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