This function was originally coded with a handmade expansion
of the array subscripts. We can do it a little faster and far
more legibly today, by using unnest() WITH ORDINALITY.
While at it, let's apply the rowcount estimation support that exists
for the underlying unnest() function: reduce the default ROWS estimate
to 100 and attach array_unnest_support. I'm not sure that
array_unnest_support can do anything useful today with the call sites
that exist in information_schema, but it can't hurt, and the existing
default rowcount of 1000 is surely much too high for any of these
cases.
The psql.sql regression script is using _pg_expandarray() as a
test case for \sf+. While we could keep doing so, the new one-line
function body makes a poor test case for \sf+ row-numbering, so
switch it to print another information_schema function.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1424303.1703355485@sss.pgh.pa.us
Default privileges are represented as NULL::aclitem[] in catalog ACL
columns, while revoking all privileges leaves an empty aclitem[].
These two cases used to produce identical output in psql meta-commands
like \dp. Using something like "\pset null '(default)'" as a
workaround for spotting the difference did not work, because null
values were always displayed as empty strings by describe.c's
meta-commands.
This patch improves that with two changes:
1. Print "(none)" for empty privileges so that the user is able to
distinguish them from default privileges, even without special
workarounds.
2. Remove the special handling of null values in describe.c,
so that "\pset null" is honored like everywhere else.
(This affects all output from these commands, not only ACLs.)
The privileges shown by \dconfig+ and \ddp as well as the column
privileges shown by \dp are not affected by change #1, because the
respective aclitem[] is reset to NULL or deleted from the catalog
instead of leaving an empty array.
Erik Wienhold and Laurenz Albe
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1966228777.127452.1694979110595@office.mailbox.org
SetResultVariables() was not getting called when "printing" a result
that failed (see around PrintQueryResult), which would cause some
variables to not be set, like ROW_COUNT, SQLSTATE or ERROR. This can be
confusing as a previous result would be retained.
This state could be reached when failing to process tuples in a few
commands, like \gset when it returns no tuples, or \crosstabview. A
test is added, based on \gset.
This is arguably a bug fix, but no backpatch is done as there is a risk
of breaking scripts that rely on the previous behavior, even if they do
so accidentally.
Reported-by: amutu
Author: Japin Li
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18134-87126d90cb4dd049@postgresql.org
With the addition of INHERIT and SET options for role grants,
the historical display of role memberships in \du/\dg is woefully
inadequate. Besides those options, there are pre-existing
shortcomings that you can't see the ADMIN option nor the grantor.
To fix this, remove the "Member of" column from \du/\dg altogether
(making that output usefully narrower), and invent a new meta-command
"\drg" that is specifically for displaying role memberships. It
shows one row for each role granted to the selected role(s), with
the grant options and grantor.
We would not normally back-patch such a feature addition post
feature freeze, but in this case the change is mainly driven by
v16 changes in the server, so it seems appropriate to include it
in v16.
Pavel Luzanov, with bikeshedding and review from a lot of people,
but particularly David Johnston
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b9be2d0e-a9bc-0a30-492f-a4f68e4f7740@postgrespro.ru
exec_parse_message() wants to create a cached plan in all cases,
including for empty input. The empty-input path does not have
a test for being in an aborted transaction, making it possible
that plancache.c will fail due to trying to do database lookups
even though there's no real work to do.
One solution would be to throw an aborted-transaction error in
this path too, but it's not entirely clear whether the lack of
such an error was intentional or whether some clients might be
relying on non-error behavior. Instead, let's hack plancache.c
so that it treats empty statements with the same logic it
already had for transaction control commands, ensuring that it
can soldier through even in an already-aborted transaction.
Per bug #17983 from Alexander Lakhin. Back-patch to all
supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17983-da4569fcb878672e@postgresql.org
\watch can now be told to stop after N executions of the query.
With the idea that we might want to add more options to \watch
in future, this patch generalizes the command's syntax to a list
of name=value options, with the interval allowed to omit the name
for backwards compatibility.
Andrey Borodin, reviewed by Kyotaro Horiguchi, Nathan Bossart,
Michael Paquier, Yugo Nagata, and myself
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAhFRxiZ2-n_L1ErMm9AZjgmUK=qS6VHb+0SaMn8sqqbhF7How@mail.gmail.com
This exposes the ICU facility to add custom collation rules to a
standard collation.
New options are added to CREATE COLLATION, CREATE DATABASE, createdb,
and initdb to set the rules.
Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/821c71a4-6ef0-d366-9acf-bb8e367f739f@enterprisedb.com
Our previous habit of showing the full function body is really
pretty unfriendly for tabular viewing of functions, and now that
we have \sf and \ef commands there seems no good reason why \df+
has to do it. It still seems to make sense to show prosrc for
internal and C-language functions, since in those cases prosrc
is just the C function name; but then let's rename the column to
"Internal name" which is a more accurate descriptor.
Isaac Morland
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMsGm5eqKc6J1=Lwn=ZONG=6ZDYWRQ4cgZQLqMuZGB1aVt_JBg@mail.gmail.com
The USER SET flag specifies that the variable should be set on behalf of an
ordinary role. That lets ordinary roles set placeholder variables, which
permission requirements are not known yet. Such a value wouldn't be used if
the variable finally appear to require superuser privileges.
The new flags are stored in the pg_db_role_setting.setuser array. Catversion
is bumped.
This commit is inspired by the previous work by Steve Chavez.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfdsLd6E--epnGqXENqLP6dLwuNZrPMcNYb3wJ87WR7UBOQ%40mail.gmail.com
Author: Alexander Korotkov, Steve Chavez
Reviewed-by: Pavel Borisov, Steve Chavez
Some options of these commands need to be able to identify the start
of the function body within the output of pg_get_functiondef().
It used to be that that always began with "AS", but since the
introduction of new-style SQL functions, it might also start with
"BEGIN" or "RETURN". Fix that on the psql side, and add some
regression tests.
Noted by me awhile ago, but I didn't do anything about it.
Thanks to David Johnston for a nag.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/AM9PR01MB8268D5CDABDF044EE9F42173FE8C9@AM9PR01MB8268.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com
This adds coverage for a few scenarios not checked yet in psql, with
multiple query combined across files defined by \o, \g or both at the
same time. The results are saved in the output files defined, then
reloaded back to check what has been written to them.
Author: Daniel Verite
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/25c2bb5b-9012-40f8-8088-774cb764046d@manitou-mail.org
This adds a new psql command \bind that sets query parameters and
causes the next query to be sent using the extended query protocol.
Example:
SELECT $1, $2 \bind 'foo' 'bar' \g
This may be useful for psql scripting, but one of the main purposes is
also to be able to test various aspects of the extended query protocol
from psql and to write tests more easily.
Reviewed-by: Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/e8dd1cd5-0e04-3598-0518-a605159fe314@enterprisedb.com
The setting controls tha maximum length of the header line in expanded
format output. Possible settings are full, column, page, or an integer.
the default is full, the current behaviour, and in this case the header
line is the length of the widest line of output. column causes the
header to be truncated to the width of the first column, page causes it
to be truncated to the width of the terminal page, and an integer causes
it to be truncated to that value. If the full value is less than the
page or integer value no truncation occurs. If given without an argument
this option prints its current setting.
Platon Pronko, somewhat modified by me.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f03d38a3-db96-a56e-d1bc-dbbc80bbde4d@gmail.com
The new show-all-results feature in psql (7844c9918) went out of its
way to show notices next to the results of the statements (in a
multi-statement string) that caused them. This also had the
consequence that notices for a single statement were not shown until
after the statement had executed, instead of right away. After some
discussion, it seems very difficult to satisfy both of these goals, so
here we are giving up on the first goal and just show the notices as
we get them. This restores the pre-7844c9918 behavior for notices.
Reported-by: Alastair McKinley <a.mckinley@analyticsengines.com>
Author: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/PAXPR02MB760039506C87A2083AD85575E3DA9%40PAXPR02MB7600.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com
psql, pg_dump, and pg_amcheck share code to process object name
patterns like 'foo*.bar*' to match all tables with names starting in
'bar' that are in schemas starting with 'foo'. Before v14, any number
of extra name parts were silently ignored, so a command line '\d
foo.bar.baz.bletch.quux' was interpreted as '\d bletch.quux'. In v14,
as a result of commit 2c8726c4b0, we
instead treated this as a request for table quux in a schema named
'foo.bar.baz.bletch'. That caused problems for people like Justin
Pryzby who were accustomed to copying strings of the form
db.schema.table from messages generated by PostgreSQL itself and using
them as arguments to \d.
Accordingly, revise things so that if an object name pattern contains
more parts than we're expecting, we throw an error, unless there's
exactly one extra part and it matches the current database name.
That way, thisdb.myschema.mytable is accepted as meaning just
myschema.mytable, but otherdb.myschema.mytable is an error, and so
is some.random.garbage.myschema.mytable.
Mark Dilger, per report from Justin Pryzby and discussion among
various people.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20211013165426.GD27491%40telsasoft.com
Plain \dconfig is basically equivalent to SHOW except that you can
give it a pattern with wildcards, either to match multiple GUCs or
because you don't exactly remember the name you want.
\dconfig+ adds type, context, and access-privilege information,
mainly because every other kind of object privilege has a psql command
to show it, so GUC privileges should too. (A form of this command was
in some versions of the patch series leading up to commit a0ffa885e.
We pulled it out then because of doubts that the design and code were
up to snuff, but I think subsequent work has resolved that.)
In passing, fix incorrect completion of GUC names in GRANT/REVOKE
ON PARAMETER: a0ffa885e neglected to use the VERBATIM form of
COMPLETE_WITH_QUERY, so it misbehaved for custom (qualified) GUC
names.
Mark Dilger and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3118455.1649267333@sss.pgh.pa.us
Previously, psql printed only the last result if a command string
returned multiple result sets. Now it prints all of them. The
previous behavior can be obtained by setting the psql variable
SHOW_ALL_RESULTS to off.
This is a significantly enhanced version of
3a51306722 (that was later reverted).
There is also much more test coverage for various psql features now.
Author: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: "Iwata, Aya" <iwata.aya@jp.fujitsu.com> (earlier version)
Reviewed-by: Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org> (earlier version)
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> (earlier version)
Reviewed-by: vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com> (earlier version)
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/alpine.DEB.2.21.1904132231510.8961@lancre
\getenv fetches the value of an environment variable into a psql
variable. This is the inverse of the \setenv command that was added
over ten years ago. We'd not seen a compelling use-case for \getenv
at the time, but upcoming regression test refactoring provides a
sufficient reason to add it now.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1655733.1639871614@sss.pgh.pa.us
When dealing with overloaded function or operator names, having
to look through a long list of matches is tedious. Let's extend
these commands to allow specification of (input) argument types
to let such results be trimmed down. Each additional argument
is treated the same as the pattern argument of \dT and matched
against the appropriate argument's type name.
While at it, fix \dT (and these new options) to recognize the
usual notation of "foo[]" for "the array type over foo", and
to handle the special abbreviations allowed by the backend
grammar, such as "int" for "integer".
Greg Sabino Mullane, revised rather significantly by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKAnmmLF9Hhu02N+s7uAyLc5J1xZReg72HQUoiKhNiJV3_jACQ@mail.gmail.com
Previously, psql printed only the last result if a command string
returned multiple result sets. Now it prints all of them. The
previous behavior can be obtained by setting the psql variable
SHOW_ALL_RESULTS to off.
Author: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
Reviewed-by: "Iwata, Aya" <iwata.aya@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/alpine.DEB.2.21.1904132231510.8961@lancre
Adds BRIN opclasses similar to the existing minmax, except that instead
of summarizing the page range into a single [min,max] range, the summary
consists of multiple ranges and/or points, allowing gaps. This allows
more efficient handling of data with poor correlation to physical
location within the table and/or outlier values, for which the regular
minmax opclassed tend to work poorly.
It's possible to specify the number of values kept for each page range,
either as a single point or an interval boundary.
CREATE TABLE t (a int);
CREATE INDEX ON t
USING brin (a int4_minmax_multi_ops(values_per_range=16));
When building the summary, the values are combined into intervals with
the goal to minimize the "covering" (sum of interval lengths), using a
support procedure computing distance between two values.
Bump catversion, due to various catalog changes.
Author: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@postgresql.org>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Sokolov Yura <y.sokolov@postgrespro.ru>
Reviewed-by: John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c1138ead-7668-f0e1-0638-c3be3237e812@2ndquadrant.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5d78b774-7e9c-c94e-12cf-fef51cc89b1a%402ndquadrant.com
Adds a BRIN opclass using a Bloom filter to summarize the range. Indexes
using the new opclasses allow only equality queries (similar to hash
indexes), but that works fine for data like UUID, MAC addresses etc. for
which range queries are not very common. This also means the indexes
work for data that is not well correlated to physical location within
the table, or perhaps even entirely random (which is a common issue with
existing BRIN minmax opclasses).
It's possible to specify opclass parameters with the usual Bloom filter
parameters, i.e. the desired false-positive rate and the expected number
of distinct values per page range.
CREATE TABLE t (a int);
CREATE INDEX ON t
USING brin (a int4_bloom_ops(false_positive_rate = 0.05,
n_distinct_per_range = 100));
The opclasses do not operate on the indexed values directly, but compute
a 32-bit hash first, and the Bloom filter is built on the hash value.
Collisions should not be a huge issue though, as the number of distinct
values in a page ranges is usually fairly small.
Bump catversion, due to various catalog changes.
Author: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@postgresql.org>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Sokolov Yura <y.sokolov@postgrespro.ru>
Reviewed-by: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
Reviewed-by: John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c1138ead-7668-f0e1-0638-c3be3237e812@2ndquadrant.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5d78b774-7e9c-c94e-12cf-fef51cc89b1a%402ndquadrant.com
Formerly, TOAST objects were unconditionally suppressed, but since
\d is able to print them it's not very clear why these variants
should not. Instead, use the same rules as for system catalogs:
they can be seen if you write the 'S' modifier or a table name
pattern. (In practice, since hardly anybody would keep pg_toast
in their search_path, it's really down to whether you use a pattern
that can match pg_toast.*.)
No docs change seems necessary because the docs already say that
this happens for "system objects"; we're just classifying TOAST
tables as being that.
Justin Pryzby, reviewed by Laurenz Albe
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201130165436.GX24052@telsasoft.com
If an interactive psql session used \gset when querying a compromised
server, the attacker could execute arbitrary code as the operating
system account running psql. Using a prefix not found among specially
treated variables, e.g. every lowercase string, precluded the attack.
Fix by issuing a warning and setting no variable for the column in
question. Users wanting the old behavior can use a prefix and then a
meta-command like "\set HISTSIZE :prefix_HISTSIZE". Back-patch to 9.5
(all supported versions).
Reviewed by Robert Haas. Reported by Nick Cleaton.
Security: CVE-2020-25696
Listing a full set of relations with those psql meta-commands, without a
matching pattern, has never showed the access method associated with
each relation. This commit adds the access method of tables, indexes
and matviews, masking it for relation kinds where it does not apply.
Note that when HIDE_TABLEAM is enabled, the information does not show
up. This is available when connecting to a backend version of at least
12, where table AMs have been introduced.
Author: Georgios Kokolatos
Reviewed-by: Vignesh C, Michael Paquier, Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/svaS1VTOEscES9CLKVTeKItjJP1EEJuBhTsA0ESOdlnbXeQSgycYwVlliL5zt8Jwcfo4ATYDXtEqsExxjkSkkhCSTCL8fnRgaCAJdr0unUg=@protonmail.com
* Strategy number and purpose are essential information for opfamily operator.
So, show those columns in non-verbose output.
* "Left/right arg type" \dAp column names are confusing, because those type
don't necessary match to function arguments. Rename them to "Registered
left/right type".
* Replace manual assembling of operator/procedure names with casts to
regoperator/regprocedure.
* Add schema-qualification for pg_catalog functions and tables.
Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut, Tom Lane
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2edc7b27-031f-b2b6-0db2-864241c91cb9%402ndquadrant.com
Backpatch-through: 13
The preferred terminology has been support "function", not procedure,
for some time, so change that over. The command stays \dAp, since
\dAf is already something else.
This commit changes ORDER BY clause for \dAo and \dAp psql commands in
the following way.
* Operators for the same types are grouped together.
* Same-class operators and procedures are listed before cross-class operators
and procedures.
Modification of ORDER BY clause for \dAp required removing DISTINCT clause,
which doesn't seem to affect anything.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200511210856.GA18368%40alvherre.pgsql
Author: Alvaro Herrera revised by me
Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov, Nikita Glukhov
We invented \gx to allow the "\pset expanded" flag to be forced on
for the duration of one command output, but that turns out to not
be nearly enough to satisfy the demand for variant output formats.
Hence, make it possible to change any pset option(s) for the duration
of a single command output, by writing "option=value ..." inside
parentheses, for example
\g (format=csv csv_fieldsep='\t') somefile
\gx can now be understood as a shorthand for including expanded=on
inside the parentheses.
Patch by me, expanding on a proposal by Pavel Stehule
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRBx9OnBPRJVtfA5ycUpySge-XootAXAsv_4rrkHxJ8eRg@mail.gmail.com
This commit provides psql commands for listing operator classes, operator
families and its contents in psql. New commands will be useful for exploring
capabilities of both builtin opclasses/opfamilies as well as
opclasses/opfamilies defined in extensions.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1529675324.14193.5.camel%40postgrespro.ru
Author: Sergey Cherkashin, Nikita Glukhov, Alexander Korotkov
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Alvaro Herrera, Arthur Zakirov
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Andres Freund
This adds tests to cover more code paths to ignore backslash commands in
false branches when using \if|\elif|\else, and improves the coverage of
\elif.
Author: Fabien Coelho
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.21.1908281618520.28828@lancre
Add the name of the owning table to the footers for a TOAST table.
Also, show all the same footers as for a regular table (in practice,
this adds the index and perhaps the tablespace and access method).
Justin Pryzby, reviewed by Fabien Coelho
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190422154902.GH14223@telsasoft.com
This is like \echo except that the text is sent to stderr not stdout.
In passing, fix a pre-existing bug in \echo and \qecho: per documentation
the -n switch should only be recognized when it is the first argument,
but actually any argument matching "-n" was treated as a switch.
(Should we back-patch that?)
David Fetter (bug fix by me), reviewed by Fabien Coelho
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190421183115.GA4311@fetter.org
* Remove one unnecessary pg_class join in SQL command. Not needed,
because we use a regclass cast instead.
* Doc: refer to "partitioned relations" rather than specifically tables,
since indexes are also displayed.
* Rename "On table" column to "Table", for consistency with \di.
Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190407212525.GB10080@telsasoft.com
The new command lists partitioned relations (tables and/or indexes),
possibly with their sizes, possibly including partitioned partitions;
their parents (if not top-level); if indexes show the tables they belong
to; and their descriptions.
While there are various possible improvements to this, having it in this
form is already a great improvement over not having any way to obtain
this report.
Author: Pavel Stěhule, with help from Mathias Brossard, Amit Langote and
Justin Pryzby.
Reviewed-by: Amit Langote, Mathias Brossard, Melanie Plageman,
Michaël Paquier, Álvaro Herrera
This is intended for use mostly in test scripts for external tools,
which could do without cross-PG-version variations in error message
wording. Of course, the SQLSTATE isn't guaranteed stable either, but
it should be more so than the error message text.
Note: there's a bit of an ABI change for libpq here, but it seems
OK because if somebody compiles against a newer version of libpq-fe.h,
and then tries to pass PQERRORS_SQLSTATE to PQsetErrorVerbosity()
of an older libpq library, it will be accepted and then act like
PQERRORS_DEFAULT, thanks to the way the tests in pqBuildErrorMessage3
have historically been phrased. That seems acceptable.
Didier Gautheron, reviewed by Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJRYxuKyj4zA+JGVrtx8OWAuBfE-_wN4sUMK4H49EuPed=mOBw@mail.gmail.com
This introduces the concept of table access methods, i.e. CREATE
ACCESS METHOD ... TYPE TABLE and
CREATE TABLE ... USING (storage-engine).
No table access functionality is delegated to table AMs as of this
commit, that'll be done in following commits.
Subsequent commits will incrementally abstract table access
functionality to be routed through table access methods. That change
is too large to be reviewed & committed at once, so it'll be done
incrementally.
Docs will be updated at the end, as adding them incrementally would
likely make them less coherent, and definitely is a lot more work,
without a lot of benefit.
Table access methods are specified similar to index access methods,
i.e. pg_am.amhandler returns, as INTERNAL, a pointer to a struct with
callbacks. In contrast to index AMs that struct needs to live as long
as a backend, typically that's achieved by just returning a pointer to
a constant struct.
Psql's \d+ now displays a table's access method. That can be disabled
with HIDE_TABLEAM=true, which is mainly useful so regression tests can
be run against different AMs. It's quite possible that this behaviour
still needs to be fine tuned.
For now it's not allowed to set a table AM for a partitioned table, as
we've not resolved how partitions would inherit that. Disallowing
allows us to introduce, if we decide that's the way forward, such a
behaviour without a compatibility break.
Catversion bumped, to add the heap table AM and references to it.
Author: Haribabu Kommi, Andres Freund, Alvaro Herrera, Dimitri Golgov and others
Discussion:
https://postgr.es/m/20180703070645.wchpu5muyto5n647@alap3.anarazel.dehttps://postgr.es/m/20160812231527.GA690404@alvherre.pgsqlhttps://postgr.es/m/20190107235616.6lur25ph22u5u5av@alap3.anarazel.dehttps://postgr.es/m/20190304234700.w5tmhducs5wxgzls@alap3.anarazel.de
latex_escaped_print() mistranslated \ and failed to provide any translation
for # ^ and ~, all of which would typically lead to LaTeX document syntax
errors. In addition it didn't translate < > and |, which would typically
render as unexpected characters.
To some extent this represents shortcomings in ancient versions of LaTeX,
which if memory serves had no easy way to render these control characters
as ASCII text. But that's been fixed for, um, decades. In any case there
is no value in emitting guaranteed-to-fail output for these characters.
Noted while fooling with test cases added by commit 9a98984f4. Back-patch
the code change to all supported versions.
I'd forgotten that in the buildfarm, parts of the regression tests
may run with psql exposed to a non-default LC_NUMERIC setting.
Hence we can't assume that C locale prevails, nor is there any
accessible way to force the setting for this single test step.
Lobotomize the test case added by commit 9a98984f4 so that it covers as
much as we can of print.c without having any locale-varying output.
"\pset format csv", or --csv, selects comma-separated values table format.
This is compliant with RFC 4180, except that we aren't too picky about
whether the record separator is LF or CRLF; also, the user may choose a
field separator other than comma.
This output format is directly compatible with the server's COPY CSV
format, and will also be useful as input to other programs. It's
considerably safer for that purpose than the old recommendation to
use "unaligned" format, since the latter couldn't handle data
containing the field separator character.
Daniel Vérité, reviewed by Fabien Coelho and David Fetter, some
tweaking by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a8de371e-006f-4f92-ab72-2bbe3ee78f03@manitou-mail.org
As penance for the "\pset format latex" silliness, add some regression
test coverage for the off-the-beaten-path output formats, which formerly
had exactly no coverage, except for some poorly-thought-out (unreadable,
repetitive, and incomplete) tests for asciidoc format.
I make no claims for the behavior exposed here actually being correct;
these test cases are just designed to ensure full code coverage in
fe_utils/print.c. This brings the line coverage for that file up
from ~60% to ~93%.