pgsql: Fix backslash-escaping multibyte chars in COPY FROM. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject pgsql: Fix backslash-escaping multibyte chars in COPY FROM.
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Msg-id E1l7xtC-00068A-5B@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Fix backslash-escaping multibyte chars in COPY FROM.

If a multi-byte character is escaped with a backslash in TEXT mode input,
and the encoding is one of the client-only encodings where the bytes after
the first one can have an ASCII byte "embedded" in the char, we didn't
skip the character correctly. After a backslash, we only skipped the first
byte of the next character, so if it was a multi-byte character, we would
try to process its second byte as if it was a separate character. If it
was one of the characters with special meaning, like '\n', '\r', or
another '\\', that would cause trouble.

One such exmple is the byte sequence '\x5ca45c2e666f6f' in Big5 encoding.
That's supposed to be [backslash][two-byte character][.][f][o][o], but
because the second byte of the two-byte character is 0x5c, we incorrectly
treat it as another backslash. And because the next character is a dot, we
parse it as end-of-copy marker, and throw an "end-of-copy marker corrupt"
error.

Backpatch to all supported versions.

Reviewed-by: John Naylor, Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/a897f84f-8dca-8798-3139-07da5bb38728%40iki.fi

Branch
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REL_12_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/9b0ce895794c88b6556d6990cdf13e8da35d11de

Modified Files
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src/backend/commands/copy.c | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)


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