On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 12:57 PM Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> wrote:
> I think there's an easy answer here that would satisfy everyone; two patches:
> 0001 to fix the unintentional behavior change;
> 0002 to reject garbage input: anything with more than 3 dot-separated
> components, or with 3 components where the first doesn't match
> current_database.
>
> 0001 would be backpatched to v14.
>
> If it turns out there's no consensus on 0002, or if it were really hard for
> some reason, or (more likely) nobody went to the bother to implement it this
> year, then that's okay.
This might work, but I fear that 0001 would end up being substantially
more complicated than a combined patch that solves both problems
together.
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Robert Haas
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