Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> A colleague tried PG 14 internally and it failed during cluster creation, when
> using the PGDG rpm packages. A bit of debugging shows that the problem is
> that the packaging script specifies the password using --pwfile /dev/zero.
> In 14+ this turns out to lead to an endless loop in pg_get_line_append().
Well, that's because that file will source an infinite amount of stuff.
> I think we still ought to make pg_get_line() a
> bit more resilient against '\0'?
I don't think '\0' is the problem. The only fix for this would be to
re-introduce some fixed limit on how long a line we'll read, which
I'm not too thrilled about. I think this is better classified as
user error.
regards, tom lane