Re: vacuumdb and new VACUUM options

From: Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Euler Taveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com(dot)br>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: vacuumdb and new VACUUM options
Date: 2019-05-15 06:44:22
Message-ID: CAD21AoA3kZ539bbSE1hWk_NsMC7QOB+sgzKmiBkE08W6DAN-Dw@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 1:01 PM Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 11:45 AM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 2019-05-15 11:36:52 +0900, Masahiko Sawada wrote:
> > > I might be missing something but if the frontend code doesn't check
> > > arguments and we let the backend parsing logic do all the work then it
> > > allows user to execute an arbitrary SQL command via vacuumdb.
> >
> > But, so what? The user could just have used psql to do so?
>
> Indeed. It shouldn't be a problem and we even now can do that by
> specifying for example --table="t(c1);select 1" but doesn't work.
>

I've attached new version patch that takes the way to let the backend
parser do all work.

Regards,

--
Masahiko Sawada
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center

Attachment Content-Type Size
v3-0001-Add-index-cleanup-option-to-vacuumdb.patch application/octet-stream 5.9 KB
v3-0002-Add-truncate-option-to-vacuumdb.patch application/octet-stream 5.6 KB

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