psql \ir filename normalization

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#1Josh Kupershmidt
schmiddy@gmail.com

Hi all,

Commit c7f23494c1103f87bcf1ef7cbfcd626e73edb337 editorialized a bit on
Gurjeet Singh's patch to implement \ir for psql, particularly in
process_file(). Unfortunately, it looks like it broke the common case
of loading a .SQL file in psql's working directory. Consider the
following test case:

mkdir -p /tmp/psql_test/subdir/
mkdir -p /tmp/psql_test/path2/

echo "SELECT 'hello 1';" > /tmp/psql_test/hello.sql
echo "SELECT 'hello from parent';" > /tmp/psql_test/hello_parent.sql
echo "SELECT 'hello from absolute path';" >
/tmp/psql_test/path2/absolute_path.sql
echo -e "SELECT 'hello 2';\n\ir ../hello_parent.sql\n\ir
/tmp/psql_test/path2/absolute_path.sql" >
/tmp/psql_test/subdir/hello2.sql
echo -e "\ir hello.sql\n\ir subdir/hello2.sql" > /tmp/psql_test/load.sql

If you try to load in "load.sql" from any working directory other than
/tmp/psql_test/ , you should correctly see four output statements.
However, if you:
cd /tmp/psql_test/ && psql test -f load.sql

You will get:

psql:load.sql:1: /hello.sql: No such file or directory
psql:load.sql:2: /subdir/hello2.sql: No such file or directory

Attached is a patch which fixes this, by recycling the bit of
Gurjeet's code which used "last_slash". (I have a feeling there's a
simpler way to fix it which avoids the last_slash complications.)

Josh

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#2Robert Haas
robertmhaas@gmail.com
In reply to: Josh Kupershmidt (#1)
Re: psql \ir filename normalization

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy@gmail.com> wrote:

Commit c7f23494c1103f87bcf1ef7cbfcd626e73edb337 editorialized a bit on
Gurjeet Singh's patch to implement \ir for psql, particularly in
process_file(). Unfortunately, it looks like it broke the common case
of loading a .SQL file in psql's working directory. Consider the
following test case:

mkdir -p /tmp/psql_test/subdir/
mkdir -p /tmp/psql_test/path2/

echo "SELECT 'hello 1';" > /tmp/psql_test/hello.sql
echo "SELECT 'hello from parent';" > /tmp/psql_test/hello_parent.sql
echo "SELECT 'hello from absolute path';" >
/tmp/psql_test/path2/absolute_path.sql
echo -e "SELECT 'hello 2';\n\ir ../hello_parent.sql\n\ir
/tmp/psql_test/path2/absolute_path.sql" >
/tmp/psql_test/subdir/hello2.sql
echo -e "\ir hello.sql\n\ir subdir/hello2.sql" > /tmp/psql_test/load.sql

If you try to load in "load.sql" from any working directory other than
/tmp/psql_test/ , you should correctly see four output statements.
However, if you:
 cd /tmp/psql_test/ && psql test -f load.sql

You will get:

psql:load.sql:1: /hello.sql: No such file or directory
psql:load.sql:2: /subdir/hello2.sql: No such file or directory

Attached is a patch which fixes this, by recycling the bit of
Gurjeet's code which used "last_slash". (I have a feeling there's a
simpler way to fix it which avoids the last_slash complications.)

Argh. The root of the problem here seems to be that
join_path_components() feels entitled to arbitrarily insert a pathname
separator at the front of the output string even if its first input
didn't begin with one originally. Lame!

While looking for other places where this behavior might cause a
problem, I noticed something else that doesn't seem right. On
REL9_1_STABLE, if I initdb and then change the first "all" on the
"local" line to "@foo", I get this:

LOG: could not open secondary authentication file "@foo" as
"/Users/rhaas/pgsql/x/foo": No such file or directory

...and then the server starts up. But on master, I get:

LOG: could not open secondary authentication file "@foo" as
"/Users/rhaas/pgsql/y/foo": No such file or directory
LOG: end-of-line before database specification
CONTEXT: line 84 of configuration file "/Users/rhaas/pgsql/y/pg_hba.conf"
LOG: invalid connection type "all"
CONTEXT: line 85 of configuration file "/Users/rhaas/pgsql/y/pg_hba.conf"
FATAL: could not load pg_hba.conf

...which doesn't look right.

--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

#3Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Robert Haas (#2)
Re: psql \ir filename normalization

Robert Haas wrote:

Argh. The root of the problem here seems to be that
join_path_components() feels entitled to arbitrarily insert a pathname
separator at the front of the output string even if its first input
didn't begin with one originally. Lame!

The attached patch fixes this report, I think.

--
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com

+ It's impossible for everything to be true. +

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#4Robert Haas
robertmhaas@gmail.com
In reply to: Bruce Momjian (#3)
Re: psql \ir filename normalization

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:

Robert Haas wrote:

Argh.  The root of the problem here seems to be that
join_path_components() feels entitled to arbitrarily insert a pathname
separator at the front of the output string even if its first input
didn't begin with one originally.  Lame!

The attached patch fixes this report, I think.

Looks sensible. Keep in mind we need to back-patch this.

--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

#5Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Robert Haas (#4)
Re: psql \ir filename normalization

Robert Haas wrote:

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:

Robert Haas wrote:

Argh. ?The root of the problem here seems to be that
join_path_components() feels entitled to arbitrarily insert a pathname
separator at the front of the output string even if its first input
didn't begin with one originally. ?Lame!

The attached patch fixes this report, I think.

Looks sensible. Keep in mind we need to back-patch this.

Oh. Well, with no bug reports about it, does that make sense? Do we
have any code that relies on the old behavior?

--
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com

+ It's impossible for everything to be true. +

#6Robert Haas
robertmhaas@gmail.com
In reply to: Bruce Momjian (#5)
Re: psql \ir filename normalization

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:

Robert Haas wrote:

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:

Robert Haas wrote:

Argh. ?The root of the problem here seems to be that
join_path_components() feels entitled to arbitrarily insert a pathname
separator at the front of the output string even if its first input
didn't begin with one originally. ?Lame!

The attached patch fixes this report, I think.

Looks sensible.  Keep in mind we need to back-patch this.

Oh.  Well, with no bug reports about it, does that make sense?  Do we
have any code that relies on the old behavior?

Oh, wait a minute. I was thinking \ir was in 9.1, but it's not: it
was committed after the branch. So I guess this only needs to be
fixed in master, which is much less scary.

--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

#7Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Robert Haas (#6)
Re: psql \ir filename normalization

Robert Haas wrote:

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:

Robert Haas wrote:

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:

Robert Haas wrote:

Argh. ?The root of the problem here seems to be that
join_path_components() feels entitled to arbitrarily insert a pathname
separator at the front of the output string even if its first input
didn't begin with one originally. ?Lame!

The attached patch fixes this report, I think.

Looks sensible. ?Keep in mind we need to back-patch this.

Oh. ?Well, with no bug reports about it, does that make sense? ?Do we
have any code that relies on the old behavior?

Oh, wait a minute. I was thinking \ir was in 9.1, but it's not: it
was committed after the branch. So I guess this only needs to be
fixed in master, which is much less scary.

Agreed. I realize it is wrong but I have no idea what impact fixing it
in back branches might have, or people who are relying on the broken
behavior in some way.

--
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com

+ It's impossible for everything to be true. +

#8Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Bruce Momjian (#7)
Re: psql \ir filename normalization

Bruce Momjian wrote:

Robert Haas wrote:

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:

Robert Haas wrote:

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:

Robert Haas wrote:

Argh. ?The root of the problem here seems to be that
join_path_components() feels entitled to arbitrarily insert a pathname
separator at the front of the output string even if its first input
didn't begin with one originally. ?Lame!

The attached patch fixes this report, I think.

Looks sensible. ?Keep in mind we need to back-patch this.

Oh. ?Well, with no bug reports about it, does that make sense? ?Do we
have any code that relies on the old behavior?

Oh, wait a minute. I was thinking \ir was in 9.1, but it's not: it
was committed after the branch. So I guess this only needs to be
fixed in master, which is much less scary.

Agreed. I realize it is wrong but I have no idea what impact fixing it
in back branches might have, or people who are relying on the broken
behavior in some way.

Patch applied.

--
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com

+ It's impossible for everything to be true. +