Re: psql \ir filename normalization

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy@gmail.com> wrote:
> Commit c7f23494c1103f87bcf1ef7cbfcd626e73edb337 editorialized a bit on
> Gurjeet Singh's patch to implement \ir for psql, particularly in
> process_file(). Unfortunately, it looks like it broke the common case
> of loading a .SQL file in psql's working directory. Consider the
> following test case:
>
> mkdir -p /tmp/psql_test/subdir/
> mkdir -p /tmp/psql_test/path2/
>
> echo "SELECT 'hello 1';" > /tmp/psql_test/hello.sql
> echo "SELECT 'hello from parent';" > /tmp/psql_test/hello_parent.sql
> echo "SELECT 'hello from absolute path';" >
> /tmp/psql_test/path2/absolute_path.sql
> echo -e "SELECT 'hello 2';\n\ir ../hello_parent.sql\n\ir
> /tmp/psql_test/path2/absolute_path.sql" >
> /tmp/psql_test/subdir/hello2.sql
> echo -e "\ir hello.sql\n\ir subdir/hello2.sql" > /tmp/psql_test/load.sql
>
>
> If you try to load in "load.sql" from any working directory other than
> /tmp/psql_test/ , you should correctly see four output statements.
> However, if you:
>  cd /tmp/psql_test/ && psql test -f load.sql
>
> You will get:
>
> psql:load.sql:1: /hello.sql: No such file or directory
> psql:load.sql:2: /subdir/hello2.sql: No such file or directory
>
> Attached is a patch which fixes this, by recycling the bit of
> Gurjeet's code which used "last_slash". (I have a feeling there's a
> simpler way to fix it which avoids the last_slash complications.)

Argh.  The root of the problem here seems to be that
join_path_components() feels entitled to arbitrarily insert a pathname
separator at the front of the output string even if its first input
didn't begin with one originally.  Lame!

While looking for other places where this behavior might cause a
problem, I noticed something else that doesn't seem right.  On
REL9_1_STABLE, if I initdb and then change the first "all" on the
"local" line to "@foo", I get this:

LOG:  could not open secondary authentication file "@foo" as
"/Users/rhaas/pgsql/x/foo": No such file or directory

...and then the server starts up.  But on master, I get:

LOG:  could not open secondary authentication file "@foo" as
"/Users/rhaas/pgsql/y/foo": No such file or directory
LOG:  end-of-line before database specification
CONTEXT:  line 84 of configuration file "/Users/rhaas/pgsql/y/pg_hba.conf"
LOG:  invalid connection type "all"
CONTEXT:  line 85 of configuration file "/Users/rhaas/pgsql/y/pg_hba.conf"
FATAL:  could not load pg_hba.conf

...which doesn't look right.

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