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Fix write/read of empty string fields in Nodes.

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Historically, outToken has represented both NULL and empty-string
strings as "<>", which readfuncs.c then read as NULL, thus failing
to preserve empty-string fields accurately.  Remarkably, this has
not caused any serious problems yet, but let's fix it.

We'll keep the "<>" notation for NULL, and use """" for empty string,
because that matches other notational choices already in use.
An actual input string of """" is converted to "\""" (this was true
already, apparently as a hangover from an ancient time when string
quoting was handled directly by pg_strtok).

CHAR fields also use "<>", but for '\0'.

Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/4159834.1657405226@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut
2022-09-26 15:25:59 +02:00
parent af51b2f042
commit 8999f5ed3c
2 changed files with 30 additions and 5 deletions
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src/backend/nodes/outfuncs.c
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@@ -135,16 +135,23 @@ static void outChar(StringInfo str, char c);
* Convert an ordinary string (eg, an identifier) into a form that
* will be decoded back to a plain token by read.c's functions.
*
* If a null or empty string is given, it is encoded as "<>".
* If a null string pointer is given, it is encoded as '<>'.
* An empty string is encoded as '""'. To avoid ambiguity, input
* strings beginning with '<' or '"' receive a leading backslash.
*/
void
outToken(StringInfo str, const char *s)
{
if (s == NULL || *s == '\0')
if (s == NULL)
{
appendStringInfoString(str, "<>");
return;
}
if (*s == '\0')
{
appendStringInfoString(str, "\"\"");
return;
}
/*
* Look for characters or patterns that are treated specially by read.c
@@ -178,6 +185,13 @@ outChar(StringInfo str, char c)
{
char in[2];
/* Traditionally, we've represented \0 as <>, so keep doing that */
if (c == '\0')
{
appendStringInfoString(str, "<>");
return;
}
in[0] = c;
in[1] = '\0';
@@ -636,7 +650,8 @@ _outString(StringInfo str, const String *node)
{
/*
* We use outToken to provide escaping of the string's content, but we
* don't want it to do anything with an empty string.
* don't want it to convert an empty string to '""', because we're putting
* double quotes around the string already.
*/
appendStringInfoChar(str, '"');
if (node->sval[0] != '\0')