Re: pg_basebackup fails on databases with high OIDs

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_basebackup fails on databases with high OIDs
Date: 2020-01-13 12:49:35
Message-ID: 36af18b2-b7ca-7f2d-00f1-8840c2cc8599@2ndquadrant.com
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On 2020-01-11 17:47, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 5:44 PM Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 08:21:11AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>> On 2020-01-06 21:00, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>>>> +0.5 to avoid calling OidInputFunctionCall()
>>>>
>>>> Or just directly using atol() instead of atoi()? Well maybe not
>>>> directly but in a small wrapper that verifies it's not bigger than an
>>>> unsigned?
>>>>
>>>> Unlike in cases where we use oidin etc, we are dealing with data that
>>>> is "mostly trusted" here, aren't we? Meaning we could call atol() on
>>>> it, and throw an error if it overflows, and be done with it?
>>>> Subdirectories in the data directory aren't exactly "untrusted enduser
>>>> data"...
>>>
>>> Yeah, it looks like we are using strtoul() without additional error checking
>>> in similar situations, so here is a patch doing it like that.
>>
>>> - true, isDbDir ? pg_atoi(lastDir + 1, sizeof(Oid), 0) : InvalidOid);
>>> + true, isDbDir ? (Oid) strtoul(lastDir + 1, NULL, 10) : InvalidOid);
>>
>> Looking at some other code, I just discovered the atooid() macro that already
>> does the same, maybe it'd be better for consistency to use that instead?
>
> +1. Whie it does the same thing, consistency is good! :)

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