Previously, this code just smashed all types of DefElem values to
strings, cavalierly reasoning that nobody would care. But in point of
fact, most of the defGetFoo functions do distinguish among different
input syntaxes; for instance defGetBoolean will accept 1 as an integer
but not "1" as a string. This led to CREATE/ALTER TEXT SEARCH
DICTIONARY accepting 0 and 1 as values for boolean dictionary
properties, only to have the dictionary fail at runtime.
We can upgrade this behavior by teaching serialize_deflist that it
does not need to quote T_Integer or T_Float nodes' values on output,
and then teaching deserialize_deflist to restore unquoted integer or
float values as the appropriate node type. This should not break
anything using pg_ts_dict.dictinitoption, since that field is just
defined as being something valid to include in CREATE TEXT SEARCH
DICTIONARY.
deserialize_deflist is also used to parse the options arguments
for the ts_headline family of functions, but so far as I can see
this won't cause any problems there either: the only consumer of
that output is prsd_headline which always uses defGetString.
(Really that's a bad idea, but I won't risk changing it here.)
This is surely a bug fix, but given the lack of field complaints
I don't think it's necessary to back-patch.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMkU=1xRcs_BUPzR0+V3WndaCAv0E_m3h6aUEJ8NF-sY1nnHsw@mail.gmail.com
The dict_int text search dictionary template accepts maxlen parameter,
which is then used to cap the length of input strings. The value was
not properly checked, and the code simply does
txt[d->maxlen] = '\0';
to insert a terminator, leading to segfaults with negative values.
This commit simply rejects values less than 1. The issue was there since
dct_int was introduced in 9.3, so backpatch all the way back to 9.4
which is the oldest supported version.
Reported-by: cili
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16144-a36a5bef7657047d@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 9.4
This isn't fully tested as yet, in particular I'm not sure that the
"foo--unpackaged--1.0.sql" scripts are OK. But it's time to get some
buildfarm cycles on it.
sepgsql is not converted to an extension, mainly because it seems to
require a very nonstandard installation process.
Dimitri Fontaine and Tom Lane