Re: [PATCH] Fix column name escaping in postgres_fdw stats import - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alex Guo
Subject Re: [PATCH] Fix column name escaping in postgres_fdw stats import
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Msg-id f3ed5fd7-40c0-42d4-a17d-7b417b5d270e@gmail.com
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In response to [PATCH] Fix column name escaping in postgres_fdw stats import  (Ayush Tiwari <ayushtiwari.slg01@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: [PATCH] Fix column name escaping in postgres_fdw stats import
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On 4/21/26 4:43 AM, Ayush Tiwari wrote:
Hi hackers,

The new statistics import feature in postgres_fdw (commit 28972b6fc3d)
builds a remote query to fetch pg_stats rows, filtering by column name
with:

  AND attname = ANY('{col1, col2}'::text[])

The column names are formatted with quote_identifier(), which only
escapes double quotes.  But since the list is embedded inside a
single-quoted string literal, any single quote in a column name
breaks the literal and produces a syntax error on the remote server.

Reproduction:

  CREATE TABLE t ("col'quote" int, c2 int);
  INSERT INTO t SELECT g, g FROM generate_series(1,100) g;
  ANALYZE t;

  CREATE FOREIGN TABLE ft ("col'quote" int, c2 int)
    SERVER loopback OPTIONS (table_name 't', restore_stats 'true');

  ANALYZE ft;
  -- ERROR:  syntax error at or near "quote"
  -- CONTEXT:  remote SQL command: ... attname = ANY('{... "col'quote"}'::text[])

The attached patch switches to an ARRAY[] constructor with each
element escaped by deparseStringLiteral(), matching how schemaname
and tablename are already handled in the same function.

Thoughts?

It should also address the issue that was raised in [1].

[1] PostgreSQL: Fix array-element quoting in postgres_fdw import statistics

Regards,
Ayush

I think the fix makes sense to me. Here, the column names are emitted as string content, thus deparseStringLiteral() is a better fit. A small comment on the test: 

+ANALYZE VERBOSE simport_ft_quote;         -- should work, not syntax error

VERBOSE seems not needed.
Regards, Alex Guo

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