Re: pg14 psql broke \d datname.nspname.relname

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Mark Dilger <mark(dot)dilger(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg14 psql broke \d datname.nspname.relname
Date: 2021-10-12 17:03:29
Message-ID: CA+TgmoZWGneZAM+-L1zHvEOOb_4HS7WxhPmAOkjFQ-onG-_ySA@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 12:57 PM Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com> wrote:
> I think there's an easy answer here that would satisfy everyone; two patches:
> 0001 to fix the unintentional behavior change;
> 0002 to reject garbage input: anything with more than 3 dot-separated
> components, or with 3 components where the first doesn't match
> current_database.
>
> 0001 would be backpatched to v14.
>
> If it turns out there's no consensus on 0002, or if it were really hard for
> some reason, or (more likely) nobody went to the bother to implement it this
> year, then that's okay.

This might work, but I fear that 0001 would end up being substantially
more complicated than a combined patch that solves both problems
together.

--
Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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