postgresql/src
Tom Lane ef47d284db Reject empty names and recursion in config-file include directives.
An empty file name or subdirectory name leads join_path_components() to
just produce the parent directory name, which leads to weird failures or
recursive inclusions.  Let's throw a specific error for that.  It takes
only slightly more code to detect all-blank names, so do so.

Also, detect direct recursion, ie a file calling itself.  As coded
this will also detect recursion via "include_dir '.'", which is
perhaps more likely than explicitly including the file itself.

Detecting indirect recursion would require API changes for guc-file.l
functions, which seems not worth it since extensions might call them.
The nesting depth limit will catch such cases eventually, just not
with such an on-point error message.

In passing, adjust the example usages in postgresql.conf.sample
to perhaps eliminate the problem at the source: there's no reason
for the examples to suggest that an empty value is valid.

Per a trouble report from Brent Bates.  Back-patch to 9.5; the
issue is old, but the code in 9.4 is enough different that the
patch doesn't apply easily, and it doesn't seem worth the trouble
to fix there.

Ian Barwick and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8c8bcbca-3bd9-dc6e-8986-04a5abdef142@2ndquadrant.com
2019-08-27 14:44:26 -04:00
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backend Reject empty names and recursion in config-file include directives. 2019-08-27 14:44:26 -04:00
bin Fix failure of --jobs with vacuumdb on Windows 2019-08-27 09:12:14 +09:00
common Fix portability failure introduced in commits d2b0b60e7 et al. 2018-12-26 15:30:35 -05:00
include Stamp 9.5.19. 2019-08-05 17:20:40 -04:00
interfaces Stamp 9.5.19. 2019-08-05 17:20:40 -04:00
makefiles Define WIN32_STACK_RLIMIT throughout win32 and cygwin builds. 2019-04-09 08:25:43 -07:00
pl Fix C++ incompatibilities in plpgsql's header files. 2019-05-31 12:34:55 -04:00
port Stamp 9.5.19. 2019-08-05 17:20:40 -04:00
template Yet further rethinking of build changes for macOS Mojave. 2018-11-02 18:54:00 -04:00
test Disallow changing an inherited column's type if not all parents changed. 2019-08-18 17:11:58 -04:00
timezone Tweak our special-case logic for the IANA "Factory" timezone. 2019-07-26 13:07:08 -04:00
tools Fix syntax error in commit 20e99cddd. 2019-07-25 14:42:25 -04:00
tutorial Remove no-longer-required function declarations. 2015-05-24 12:20:23 -04:00
.gitignore Convert cvsignore to gitignore, and add .gitignore for build targets. 2010-09-22 12:57:04 +02:00
bcc32.mak Autoconfiscate selection of 64-bit int type for 64-bit large object API. 2012-10-07 21:52:43 -04:00
DEVELOPERS Replace a couple of references to files that no longer exist in the source 2009-05-04 08:08:47 +00:00
Makefile Install TAP test infrastructure so it's available for extension testing. 2016-09-23 15:50:00 -04:00
Makefile.global.in Handle USE_MODULE_DB for all tests able to use an installed postmaster. 2019-04-03 17:10:39 -07:00
Makefile.shlib Ensure static libraries have correct mod time even if ranlib messes it up. 2018-11-29 15:53:44 -05:00
nls-global.mk nls-global.mk: search build dir for source files, too 2016-06-07 18:55:18 -04:00
win32.mak Autoconfiscate selection of 64-bit int type for 64-bit large object API. 2012-10-07 21:52:43 -04:00