The function had been interpreting SQL_ASCII messages as UTF8, throwing
an error when they were invalid UTF8. The new behavior is consistent
with pg_do_encoding_conversion(). This affects LOG_DESTINATION_STDERR
and LOG_DESTINATION_EVENTLOG, which will send untranslated bytes to
write() and ReportEventA(). On buildfarm member bowerbird, enabling
log_connections caused an error whenever the role name was not valid
UTF8. Back-patch to 9.4 (all supported versions).
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190512015615.GD1124997@rfd.leadboat.com
Add tests for consistent support of connection strings in frontend
programs as well as proper handling of unusual characters in database
and user names. These tests were developed for the issues of
CVE-2016-5424.
To allow testing of names with spaces, change the pg_regress
command-line options --create-role and --dbname to split their arguments
by comma only, not space or comma as before. Only commas were actually
used in existing uses.
Noah Misch, Michael Paquier, Peter Eisentraut
