Re: Allow escape in application_name

From: Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com>
Cc: "kuroda(dot)hayato(at)fujitsu(dot)com" <kuroda(dot)hayato(at)fujitsu(dot)com>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>, "houzj(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com" <houzj(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com>, "ikedamsh(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com" <ikedamsh(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, "tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Allow escape in application_name
Date: 2021-12-29 01:34:31
Message-ID: CAD21AoDtrz5bWLJ5QvOoxpZg1ub=6k2qwP6F5yvfkH3YvF7M2Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 3:29 PM Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com> wrote:
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> On 2021/12/28 9:32, Masahiko Sawada wrote:
> > Doesn't this query return 64? So the expression "substring(str for
> > (SELECT max_identifier_length FROM pg_control_init()))" returns the
> > first 64 characters of the given string while the application_name is
> > truncated to be 63 (NAMEDATALEN - 1) characters. It also seems to be
> > fine to use current_setting('max_identifier_length') instead of
> > max_identifier_length of pg_control_init().
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> Interesting! I agree that current_setting('max_identifier_length') should be used instead. Attached is the updated version of the patch. It uses current_setting('max_identifier_length').

Thank you for updating the patch! It looks good to me.

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> BTW it seems confusing that pg_control_init() (also pg_controldata) and GUC report different values as max_identifier_length. Probably they should return the same value such as NAMEDATALEN - 1. But this change might be overkill...

Agreed. Probably we can fix it in a separate patch if necessary.

Regards,

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Masahiko Sawada
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