According to Microsoft's documentation, 2.2 has been the current
version since Windows 98 or so. Moreover, that's what the Postgres
backend has been requesting since 2004 (cf commit 4cdf51e64).
So there seems no reason for libpq to keep asking for 1.1.
Bring thread_test along, too, so that we're uniformly asking for 2.2
in all our WSAStartup calls.
It's not clear whether there's any point in back-patching this,
so for now I didn't.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/132799.1602960277@sss.pgh.pa.us
The Windows documentation insists that every WSAStartup call should
have a matching WSACleanup call. However, if that ever had actual
relevance, it wasn't in this century. Every remotely-modern Windows
kernel is capable of cleaning up when a process exits without doing
that, and must be so to avoid resource leaks in case of a process
crash. Moreover, Postgres backends have done WSAStartup without
WSACleanup since commit 4cdf51e64 in 2004, and we've never seen any
indication of a problem with that.
libpq's habit of doing WSAStartup during connection start and
WSACleanup during shutdown is also rather inefficient, since a
series of non-overlapping connection requests leads to repeated,
quite expensive DLL unload/reload cycles. We document a workaround
for that (having the application call WSAStartup for itself), but
that's just a kluge. It's also worth noting that it's far from
uncommon for applications to exit without doing PQfinish, and
we've not heard reports of trouble from that either.
However, the real reason for acting on this is that recent
experiments by Alexander Lakhin suggest that calling WSACleanup
during PQfinish might be triggering the symptom we occasionally see
that a process using libpq fails to emit expected stdio output.
Therefore, let's change libpq so that it calls WSAStartup only
once per process, during the first connection attempt, and never
calls WSACleanup at all.
While at it, get rid of the only other WSACleanup call in our code
tree, in pg_dump/parallel.c; that presumably is equally useless.
If this proves to suppress the fairly-common ecpg test failures
we see on Windows, I'll back-patch, but for now let's just do it
in HEAD and see what happens.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ac976d8c-03df-d6b8-025c-15a2de8d9af1@postgrespro.ru
Use a StringInfo instead of a fixed-size buffer in parseServiceInfo().
While we've not heard complaints about the existing 255-byte limit,
it certainly seems possible that complex cases could run afoul of it.
Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/48A4FA71-524E-41B9-953A-FD04EF36E2E7@yesql.se
Historically there's been a hard-wired assumption here that no line of
a .pgpass file could be as long as NAMEDATALEN*5 bytes. That's a bit
shaky to start off with, because (a) there's no reason to suppose that
host names fit in NAMEDATALEN, and (b) this figure fails to allow for
backslash escape characters. However, it fails completely if someone
wants to use a very long password, and we're now hearing reports of
people wanting to use "security tokens" that can run up to several
hundred bytes. Another angle is that the file is specified to allow
comment lines, but there's no reason to assume that long comment lines
aren't possible.
Rather than guessing at what might be a more suitable limit, let's
replace the fixed-size buffer with an expansible PQExpBuffer. That
adds one malloc/free cycle to the typical use-case, but that's surely
pretty cheap relative to the I/O this code has to do.
Also, add TAP test cases to exercise this code, because there was no
test coverage before.
This reverts most of commit 2eb3bc588, as there's no longer a need for
a warning message about overlength .pgpass lines. (I kept the explicit
check for comment lines, though.)
In HEAD and v13, this also fixes an oversight in 74a308cf5: there's not
much point in explicit_bzero'ing the line buffer if we only do so in two
of the three exit paths.
Back-patch to all supported branches, except that the test case only
goes back to v10 where src/test/authentication/ was added.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4187382.1598909041@sss.pgh.pa.us
GSS-related resources should be cleaned up in pqDropConnection,
not freePGconn, else the wrong things happen when resetting
a connection or trying to switch to a different server.
It's also critical to reset conn->gssenc there.
During connection setup, initialize conn->try_gss at the correct
place, else switching to a different server won't work right.
Remove now-redundant cleanup of GSS resources around one (and, for
some reason, only one) pqDropConnection call in connectDBStart.
Per report from Kyotaro Horiguchi that psql would freeze up,
rather than successfully resetting a GSS-encrypted connection
after a server restart.
This is YA oversight in commit b0b39f72b, so back-patch to v12.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200710.173803.435804731896516388.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
When we initially created this parameter, in commit ff8ca5fad, we left
the default as "allow any protocol version" on grounds of backwards
compatibility. However, that's inconsistent with the backend's default
since b1abfec82; protocol versions prior to 1.2 are not considered very
secure; and OpenSSL has had TLSv1.2 support since 2012, so the number
of PG servers that need a lesser minimum is probably quite small.
On top of those things, it emerges that some popular distros (including
Debian and RHEL) set MinProtocol=TLSv1.2 in openssl.cnf. Thus, far
from having "allow any protocol version" behavior in practice, what
we actually have as things stand is a platform-dependent lower limit.
So, change our minds and set the min version to TLSv1.2. Anybody
wanting to connect with a new libpq to a pre-2012 server can either
set ssl_min_protocol_version=TLSv1 or accept the fallback to non-SSL.
Back-patch to v13 where the aforementioned patches appeared.
Patch by me, reviewed by Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a9408304-4381-a5af-d259-e55d349ae4ce@2ndquadrant.com
The libpq parameters ssl{max|min}protocolversion are renamed to use
underscores, to become ssl_{max|min}_protocol_version. The related
environment variables still use the names introduced in commit ff8ca5f
that added the feature.
Per complaint from Peter Eisentraut (this was also mentioned by me in
the original patch review but the issue got discarded).
Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b319e449-318d-e691-4997-1327e166fcc4@2ndquadrant.com
This commit fixes the following two issues around .pgpass file.
(1) If the length of a line in .pgpass file was larger than 319B,
libpq silently treated each 319B in the line as a separate
setting line.
(2) The document explains that a line beginning with # is treated
as a comment in .pgpass. But there was no code doing such
special handling. Whether a line begins with # or not, libpq
just checked that the first token in the line match with the host.
For (1), this commit makes libpq warn if the length of a line
is larger than 319B, and throw away the remaining part beginning
from 320B position.
For (2), this commit changes libpq so that it treats any lines
beginning with # as comments.
Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Hamid Akhtar
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c0f0c01c-fa74-9749-2084-b73882fd5465@oss.nttdata.com
The error exits added to initialize_SSL() failed to clean up the
partially-built SSL_context, and some of them also leaked the
result of SSLerrmessage(). Make them match other error-handling
cases in that function.
The error exits added to connectOptions2() failed to set conn->status
like every other error exit in that function.
In passing, make the SSL_get_peer_certificate() error exit look more
like all the other calls of SSLerrmessage().
Oversights in commit ff8ca5fad. Coverity whined about leakage of the
SSLerrmessage() results; I noted the rest in manual code review.
We have code paths for Unix socket support and no Unix socket support.
Now add a third variant: Unix socket support but do not use a Unix
socket by default in the client or the server, only if you explicitly
specify one. This will be useful when we enable Unix socket support
on Windows.
To implement this, tweak things so that setting DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR
to "" has the desired effect. This mostly already worked like that;
only a few places needed to be adjusted. Notably, the reference to
DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR in UNIXSOCK_PATH() could be removed because all
callers already resolve an empty socket directory setting with a
default if appropriate.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/75f72249-8ae6-322a-63df-4fe03eeccb9f@2ndquadrant.com
We used to strategically place newlines after some function call left
parentheses to make pgindent move the argument list a few chars to the
left, so that the whole line would fit under 80 chars. However,
pgindent no longer does that, so the newlines just made the code
vertically longer for no reason. Remove those newlines, and reflow some
of those lines for some extra naturality.
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200129200401.GA6303@alvherre.pgsql
channel_binding's longest allowed value is not "7", it is actually "8".
gssencmode also got that wrong.
A similar mistake has been fixed as of f4051e3.
Backpatch down to v12, where gssencmode has been introduced.
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200128053633.GD1552@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 12
These two new parameters, named sslminprotocolversion and
sslmaxprotocolversion, allow to respectively control the minimum and the
maximum version of the SSL protocol used for the SSL connection attempt.
The default setting is to allow any version for both the minimum and the
maximum bounds, causing libpq to rely on the bounds set by the backend
when negotiating the protocol to use for an SSL connection. The bounds
are checked when the values are set at the earliest stage possible as
this makes the checks independent of any SSL implementation.
Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Cary Huang
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4F246AE3-A7AE-471E-BD3D-C799D3748E03@yesql.se
Fix assorted bugs in handling of non-blocking I/O when using GSSAPI
encryption. The encryption layer could return the wrong status
information to its caller, resulting in effectively dropping some data
(or possibly in aborting a not-broken connection), or in a "livelock"
situation where data remains to be sent but the upper layers think
transmission is done and just go to sleep. There were multiple small
thinkos contributing to that, as well as one big one (failure to think
through what to do when a send fails after having already transmitted
data). Note that these errors could cause failures whether the client
application asked for non-blocking I/O or not, since both libpq and
the backend always run things in non-block mode at this level.
Also get rid of use of static variables for GSSAPI inside libpq;
that's entirely not okay given that multiple connections could be
open at once inside a single client process.
Also adjust a bunch of random small discrepancies between the frontend
and backend versions of the send/receive functions -- except for error
handling, they should be identical, and now they are.
Also extend the Kerberos TAP tests to exercise cases where nontrivial
amounts of data need to be pushed through encryption. Before, those
tests didn't provide any useful coverage at all for the cases of
interest here. (They still might not, depending on timing, but at
least there's a chance.)
Per complaint from pmc@citylink and subsequent investigation.
Back-patch to v12 where this code was introduced.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200109181822.GA74698@gate.oper.dinoex.org
We realized years ago that it's better for libpq to accept all
connection parameters syntactically, even if some are ignored or
restricted due to lack of the feature in a particular build.
However, that lesson from the SSL support was for some reason never
applied to the GSSAPI support. This is causing various buildfarm
members to have problems with a test case added by commit 6136e94dc,
and it's just a bad idea from a user-experience standpoint anyway,
so fix it.
While at it, fix some places where parameter-related infrastructure
was added with the aid of a dartboard, or perhaps with the aid of
the anti-pattern "add new stuff at the end". It should be safe
to rearrange the contents of struct pg_conn even in released
branches, since that's private to libpq (and we'd have to move
some fields in some builds to fix this, anyway).
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11297.1576868677@sss.pgh.pa.us
The getpeereid() uses have so far been protected by HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS,
so they didn't ever care about Windows support. But in anticipation
of Unix-domain socket support on Windows, that needs to be handled
differently.
Windows doesn't support getpeereid() at this time, so we use the
existing not-supported code path. We let configure do its usual thing
of picking up the replacement from libpgport, instead of the custom
overrides that it was doing before.
But then Windows doesn't have struct passwd, so this patch sprinkles
some additional #ifdef WIN32 around to make it work. This is similar
to existing code that deals with this issue.
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/5974caea-1267-7708-40f2-6009a9d653b0@2ndquadrant.com
This partially reverts commit 4dc6355210.
The information returned by the function can be obtained by calling
PQconninfo(), so the function is redundant.
This patch providies for support for password protected SSL client
keys in libpq, and for DER format keys, both encrypted and unencrypted.
There is a new connection parameter sslpassword, which is supplied to
the OpenSSL libraries via a callback function. The callback function can
also be set by an application by calling PQgetSSLKeyPassHook(). There is
also a function to retreive the connection setting, PQsslpassword().
Craig Ringer and Andrew Dunstan
Reviewed by: Greg Nancarrow
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f7ee88ed-95c4-95c1-d4bf-7b415363ab62@2ndQuadrant.com
A check was redundant. While on it, add an assertion to make sure that
the parsing routine is never called with a NULL input. All the code
paths currently calling the parsing routine are careful with NULL inputs
already, but future callers may forget that.
Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut, Lars Kanis
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ec64956b-4597-56b6-c3db-457d15250fe4@2ndquadrant.com
Backpatch-through: 12
The logic was correctly detecting a parsing failure, but the parsing
error did not get reported back to the client properly.
Reported-by: Ed Morley
Author: Lars Kanis
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a9b4cbd7-4ecb-06b2-ebd7-1739bbff3217@greiz-reinsdorf.de
Backpatch-through: 12
Commit e7a2217 has introduced stricter checks for integer values in
connection parameters for libpq. However this failed to correctly check
after trailing whitespaces, while leading whitespaces were discarded per
the use of strtol(3). This fixes and refactors the parsing logic to
handle both cases consistently. Note that trying to restrict the use of
trailing whitespaces can easily break connection strings like in ECPG
regression tests (these have allowed me to catch the parsing bug with
connect_timeout).
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Lars Kanis
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a9b4cbd7-4ecb-06b2-ebd7-1739bbff3217@greiz-reinsdorf.de
Backpatch-through: 12
There was some duplicate code to run SHOW transaction_read_only to
determine whether the server is read-write or read-only. Reduce it by
adding another state to the state machine.
Author: Hari Babu Kommi
Reviewed-by: Takayuki Tsunakawa, Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJrrPGe_qgdbbN+yBgEVpd+YLHXXjTruzk6RmTMhqrFig+32ag@mail.gmail.com
Use the explicit_bzero() function in places where it is important that
security information such as passwords is cleared from memory. There
might be other places where it could be useful; this is just an
initial collection.
For platforms that don't have explicit_bzero(), provide various
fallback implementations. (explicit_bzero() itself isn't standard,
but as Linux/glibc, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD have it, it's the most common
spelling, so it makes sense to make that the invocation point.)
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/42d26bde-5d5b-c90d-87ae-6cab875f73be%402ndquadrant.com
Prefix inet_net_ntop and sibling routines with "pg_" to ensure that
they aren't mistaken for C-library functions. This fixes warnings
from cpluspluscheck on some platforms, and should help reduce reader
confusion everywhere, since our functions aren't exactly interchangeable
with the library versions (they may have different ideas about address
family codes).
This shouldn't be fixing any actual bugs, unless somebody's linker
is misbehaving, so no need to back-patch.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20518.1559494394@sss.pgh.pa.us
b654714 has reworked the way trailing CR/LF characters are removed from
strings. This commit introduces a new routine in common/string.c and
refactors the code so as the logic is in a single place, mostly.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Bruce Momjian
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190801031820.GF29334@paquier.xyz
libpq failed to ignore Windows-style newlines in connection service files.
This normally wasn't a problem on Windows itself, because fgets() would
convert \r\n to just \n. But if libpq were running inside a program that
changes the default fopen mode to binary, it would see the \r's and think
they were data. In any case, it's project policy to ignore \r in text
files unconditionally, because people sometimes try to use files with
DOS-style newlines on Unix machines, where the C library won't hide that
from us.
Hence, adjust parseServiceFile() to ignore \r as well as \n at the end of
the line. In HEAD, go a little further and make it ignore all trailing
whitespace, to match what it's always done with leading whitespace.
In HEAD, also run around and fix up everyplace where we have
newline-chomping code to make all those places look consistent and
uniformly drop \r. It is not clear whether any of those changes are
fixing live bugs. Most of the non-cosmetic changes are in places that
are reading popen output, and the jury is still out as to whether popen
on Windows can return \r\n. (The Windows-specific code in pipe_read_line
seems to think so, but our lack of support for this elsewhere suggests
maybe it's not a problem in practice.) Hence, I desisted from applying
those changes to back branches, except in run_ssl_passphrase_command()
which is new enough and little-tested enough that we'd probably not have
heard about any problems there.
Tom Lane and Michael Paquier, per bug #15827 from Jorge Gustavo Rocha.
Back-patch the parseServiceFile() change to all supported branches,
and the run_ssl_passphrase_command() change to v11 where that was added.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15827-e6ba53a3a7ed543c@postgresql.org
This changes various places where appendPQExpBuffer was used in places
where it was possible to use appendPQExpBufferStr, and likewise for
appendStringInfo and appendStringInfoString. This is really just a
stylistic improvement, but there are also small performance gains to be
had from doing this.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f9P=M-3ULmPvr8iCno8yvfDViHibJjpriHU8+SXUgeZ=w@mail.gmail.com
Fixes some problems introduced by 6e5f8d489acc:
* When reusing conninfo data from the previous connection in \connect,
the host address should only be reused if it was specified as
hostaddr; if it wasn't, then 'host' is resolved afresh. We were
reusing the same IP address, which ignores a possible DNS change
as well as any other addresses that the name resolves to than the
one that was used in the original connection.
* PQhost, PQhostaddr: Don't present user-specified hostaddr when we have
an inet_net_ntop-produced equivalent address. The latter has been
put in canonical format, which is cleaner (so it produces "127.0.0.1"
when given "host=2130706433", for example).
* Document the hostaddr-reusing aspect of \connect.
* Fix some code comments
Author: Fabien Coelho
Reported-by: Noah Misch
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190527203713.GA58392@gust.leadboat.com
This is still using the 2.0 version of pg_bsd_indent.
I thought it would be good to commit this separately,
so as to document the differences between 2.0 and 2.1 behavior.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16296.1558103386@sss.pgh.pa.us
The GSSAPI encryption patch neglected to update the protocol
documentation to describe how to set up a GSSAPI encrypted connection
from a client to the server, so fix that by adding the appropriate
documentation to protocol.sgml.
The tests added for encryption support were overly long and couldn't be
run in parallel due to race conditions; this was largely because each
test was setting up its own KDC to perform the tests. Instead, merge
the authentication tests and the encryption tests into the original
test, where we only create one KDC to run the tests with. Also, have
the tests check what the server's opinion is of the connection and if it
was GSS authenticated or encrypted using the pg_stat_gssapi view.
In passing, fix the libpq label for GSSENC-Mode to be consistent with
the "PGGSSENCMODE" environment variable.
Missing protocol documentation pointed out by Michael Paquier.
Issues with the tests pointed out by Tom Lane and Peter Eisentraut.
Refactored tests and added documentation by me.
Reviewed by Robbie Harwood (protocol documentation) and Michael Paquier
(rework of the tests).
Similarly to the set of parameters for keepalive, a connection parameter
for libpq is added as well as a backend GUC, called tcp_user_timeout.
Increasing the TCP user timeout is useful to allow a connection to
survive extended periods without end-to-end connection, and decreasing
it allows application to fail faster. By default, the parameter is 0,
which makes the connection use the system default, and follows a logic
close to the keepalive parameters in its handling. When connecting
through a Unix-socket domain, the parameters have no effect.
Author: Ryohei Nagaura
Reviewed-by: Fabien Coelho, Robert Haas, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Kirk
Jamison, Mikalai Keida, Takayuki Tsunakawa, Andrei Yahorau
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/EDA4195584F5064680D8130B1CA91C45367328@G01JPEXMBYT04
There was some confusion over the format of the error message returned
from the server during GSSAPI startup; specifically, it was expected
that a length would be returned when, in reality, at this early stage in
the startup sequence, no length is returned from the server as part of
an error message.
Correct the client-side code for dealing with error messages sent by the
server during startup by simply reading what's available into our
buffer, after we've discovered it's an error message, and then reporting
back what was returned.
In passing, also add in documentation of the environment variable
PGGSSENCMODE which was missed previously, and adjust the code to look
for the PGGSSENCMODE variable (the environment variable change was
missed in the prior GSSMODE -> GSSENCMODE commit).
Error-handling issue discovered by Peter Eisentraut, the rest were items
discovered during testing of the error handling.
On both the frontend and backend, prepare for GSSAPI encryption
support by moving common code for error handling into a separate file.
Fix a TODO for handling multiple status messages in the process.
Eliminate the OIDs, which have not been needed for some time.
Add frontend and backend encryption support functions. Keep the
context initiation for authentication-only separate on both the
frontend and backend in order to avoid concerns about changing the
requested flags to include encryption support.
In postmaster, pull GSSAPI authorization checking into a shared
function. Also share the initiator name between the encryption and
non-encryption codepaths.
For HBA, add "hostgssenc" and "hostnogssenc" entries that behave
similarly to their SSL counterparts. "hostgssenc" requires either
"gss", "trust", or "reject" for its authentication.
Similarly, add a "gssencmode" parameter to libpq. Supported values are
"disable", "require", and "prefer". Notably, negotiation will only be
attempted if credentials can be acquired. Move credential acquisition
into its own function to support this behavior.
Add a simple pg_stat_gssapi view similar to pg_stat_ssl, for monitoring
if GSSAPI authentication was used, what principal was used, and if
encryption is being used on the connection.
Finally, add documentation for everything new, and update existing
documentation on connection security.
Thanks to Michael Paquier for the Windows fixes.
Author: Robbie Harwood, with changes to the read/write functions by me.
Reviewed in various forms and at different times by: Michael Paquier,
Andres Freund, David Steele.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/jlg1tgq1ktm.fsf@thriss.redhat.com
Originally, if libpq got a failure (e.g., ECONNRESET) while trying to
send data to the server, it would just report that and wash its hands
of the matter. It was soon found that that wasn't a very pleasant way
of coping with server-initiated disconnections, so we introduced a hack
(pqHandleSendFailure) in the code that sends queries to make it peek
ahead for server error reports before reporting the send failure.
It now emerges that related cases can occur during connection setup;
in particular, as of TLS 1.3 it's unsafe to assume that SSL connection
failures will be reported by SSL_connect rather than during our first
send attempt. We could have fixed that in a hacky way by applying
pqHandleSendFailure after a startup packet send failure, but
(a) pqHandleSendFailure explicitly disclaims suitability for use in any
state except query startup, and (b) the problem still potentially exists
for other send attempts in libpq.
Instead, let's fix this in a more general fashion by eliminating
pqHandleSendFailure altogether, and instead arranging to postpone
all reports of send failures in libpq until after we've made an
attempt to read and process server messages. The send failure won't
be reported at all if we find a server message or detect input EOF.
(Note: this removes one of the reasons why libpq typically overwrites,
rather than appending to, conn->errorMessage: pqHandleSendFailure needed
that behavior so that the send failure report would be replaced if we
got a server message or read failure report. Eventually I'd like to get
rid of that overwrite behavior altogether, but today is not that day.
For the moment, pqSendSome is assuming that its callees will overwrite
not append to conn->errorMessage.)
Possibly this change should get back-patched someday; but it needs
testing first, so let's not consider that till after v12 beta.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=2n6Nv+5tFfe8YnkUm1fXgvxR0Mm1FoD+QKG-vLNGLyKg@mail.gmail.com
When hostaddr is given, the actual IP address that psql is connected to
can be totally unexpected for the given host. The more verbose output
we now generate makes things clearer. Since the "host" and "hostaddr"
parts of the conninfo could come from different sources (say, one of
them is in the service specification or a URI-style conninfo and the
other is not), this is not as silly as it may first appear. This is
also definitely useful if the hostname resolves to multiple addresses.
Author: Fabien Coelho
Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule, Arthur Zakirov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.21.1810261532380.27686@lancrehttps://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.21.1808201323020.13832@lancre
This provides the features that used to exist in useful_strerror()
for users of strerror_r(), too. Also, standardize on the GNU convention
that strerror_r returns a char pointer that may not be NULL.
I notice that libpq's win32.c contains a variant version of strerror_r
that probably ought to be folded into strerror.c. But lacking a
Windows environment, I should leave that to somebody else.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2975.1526862605@sss.pgh.pa.us
Michael Paquier
Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut
Fujii Masao
Alvaro Herrera
Stephen Frost
Bruce Momjian
Andrew Dunstan
Amit Kapila
Jeff Davis
David Rowley