Re: [PATCHES] BUG #2221: Bad delimiters allowed in COPY ...

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org, PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] BUG #2221: Bad delimiters allowed in COPY ...
Date: 2006-01-30 06:47:13
Message-ID: 20060130064712.GA6212@fetter.org
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On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 10:20:47PM -0500, Neil Conway wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 17:03 -0800, David Fetter wrote:
> > Another followup, this time with the comment done right.
>
> + /* Disallow the forbidden_delimiter strings */
> + if (strcspn(cstate->delim, BADCHARS) != 1)
> + elog(ERROR, "COPY delimiter cannot be %#02x",
> + *cstate->delim);
> +
>
> The comment is still wrong: referencing "forbidden_delimiter" makes
> it sound like there is something named forbidden_delimiter, but
> there is not (at least in the patch as submitted).
>
> The patch should also use ereport rather than elog, because this
> error message might reasonably be encountered by the user.

Patch with BADCHARS attached :)

Cheers,
D
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