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pgsql: Add support for piping COPY to/from an external program.

От
Heikki Linnakangas
Дата:
Add support for piping COPY to/from an external program.

This includes backend "COPY TO/FROM PROGRAM '...'" syntax, and corresponding
psql \copy syntax. Like with reading/writing files, the backend version is
superuser-only, and in the psql version, the program is run in the client.

In the passing, the psql \copy STDIN/STDOUT syntax is subtly changed: if you
the stdin/stdout is quoted, it's now interpreted as a filename. For example,
"\copy foo from 'stdin'" now reads from a file called 'stdin', not from
standard input. Before this, there was no way to specify a filename called
stdin, stdout, pstdin or pstdout.

This creates a new function in pgport, wait_result_to_str(), which can
be used to convert the exit status of a process, as returned by wait(3),
to a human-readable string.

Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Amit Kapila.

Branch
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master

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/3d009e45bde2a2681826ef549637ada76508b597

Modified Files
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contrib/file_fdw/file_fdw.c             |    4 +-
doc/src/sgml/keywords.sgml              |    7 +
doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml              |   50 +++++++-
doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml          |   33 ++++--
src/backend/commands/copy.c             |  205 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------
src/backend/nodes/copyfuncs.c           |    1 +
src/backend/nodes/equalfuncs.c          |    1 +
src/backend/parser/gram.y               |   48 ++++++--
src/backend/storage/file/fd.c           |   98 ++++++++++++++-
src/bin/psql/copy.c                     |  131 ++++++++++++++++----
src/bin/psql/stringutils.c              |    5 +-
src/bin/psql/stringutils.h              |    2 +
src/include/commands/copy.h             |    2 +-
src/include/nodes/parsenodes.h          |    1 +
src/include/parser/kwlist.h             |    1 +
src/include/port.h                      |    3 +
src/include/storage/fd.h                |    4 +
src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/ecpg.addons |    2 +-
src/port/Makefile                       |    3 +-
src/port/exec.c                         |   37 ++----
src/port/wait_error.c                   |   92 ++++++++++++++
21 files changed, 581 insertions(+), 149 deletions(-)


Re: pgsql: Add support for piping COPY to/from an external program.

От
Thom Brown
Дата:
On 27 February 2013 16:22, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi> wrote:
> Add support for piping COPY to/from an external program.
>
> This includes backend "COPY TO/FROM PROGRAM '...'" syntax, and corresponding
> psql \copy syntax. Like with reading/writing files, the backend version is
> superuser-only, and in the psql version, the program is run in the client.
>
> In the passing, the psql \copy STDIN/STDOUT syntax is subtly changed: if you
> the stdin/stdout is quoted, it's now interpreted as a filename. For example,
> "\copy foo from 'stdin'" now reads from a file called 'stdin', not from
> standard input. Before this, there was no way to specify a filename called
> stdin, stdout, pstdin or pstdout.
>
> This creates a new function in pgport, wait_result_to_str(), which can
> be used to convert the exit status of a process, as returned by wait(3),
> to a human-readable string.
>
> Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Amit Kapila.

A minor point:

+    Executing a command with <literal>PROGRAM</literal> might be restricted
+    by operating system's access control mechanisms, such as the SELinux.

This doesn't read well.  Could this instead be amended to something more like:

"Executing a command with PROGRAM might be restricted by the operating
system's access control mechanisms, such as those enforced by
SELinux."

--
Thom


Re: pgsql: Add support for piping COPY to/from an external program.

От
Heikki Linnakangas
Дата:
On 27.02.2013 18:35, Thom Brown wrote:
> On 27 February 2013 16:22, Heikki Linnakangas<heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>  wrote:
>> Add support for piping COPY to/from an external program.
>>
>> This includes backend "COPY TO/FROM PROGRAM '...'" syntax, and corresponding
>> psql \copy syntax. Like with reading/writing files, the backend version is
>> superuser-only, and in the psql version, the program is run in the client.
>>
>> In the passing, the psql \copy STDIN/STDOUT syntax is subtly changed: if you
>> the stdin/stdout is quoted, it's now interpreted as a filename. For example,
>> "\copy foo from 'stdin'" now reads from a file called 'stdin', not from
>> standard input. Before this, there was no way to specify a filename called
>> stdin, stdout, pstdin or pstdout.
>>
>> This creates a new function in pgport, wait_result_to_str(), which can
>> be used to convert the exit status of a process, as returned by wait(3),
>> to a human-readable string.
>>
>> Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Amit Kapila.
>
> A minor point:
>
> +    Executing a command with<literal>PROGRAM</literal>  might be restricted
> +    by operating system's access control mechanisms, such as the SELinux.
>
> This doesn't read well.  Could this instead be amended to something more like:
>
> "Executing a command with PROGRAM might be restricted by the operating
> system's access control mechanisms, such as those enforced by
> SELinux."

Hmm, that doesn't feel like an improvement to me. I guess your version
is more accurate, if you think that SELinux provides the access control
mechanism, rather than that SELinux itself is an access control
mechanism. But I don't think such accuracy is important here.

(I note that there is a spurious "the" in my wording, though. Should be
"..., such as SELinux")

- Heikki


Re: pgsql: Add support for piping COPY to/from an external program.

От
Thom Brown
Дата:
On 27 February 2013 19:12, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com> wrote:
> On 27.02.2013 18:35, Thom Brown wrote:
>>
>> On 27 February 2013 16:22, Heikki Linnakangas<heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Add support for piping COPY to/from an external program.
>>>
>>> This includes backend "COPY TO/FROM PROGRAM '...'" syntax, and
>>> corresponding
>>> psql \copy syntax. Like with reading/writing files, the backend version
>>> is
>>> superuser-only, and in the psql version, the program is run in the
>>> client.
>>>
>>> In the passing, the psql \copy STDIN/STDOUT syntax is subtly changed: if
>>> you
>>> the stdin/stdout is quoted, it's now interpreted as a filename. For
>>> example,
>>> "\copy foo from 'stdin'" now reads from a file called 'stdin', not from
>>> standard input. Before this, there was no way to specify a filename
>>> called
>>> stdin, stdout, pstdin or pstdout.
>>>
>>> This creates a new function in pgport, wait_result_to_str(), which can
>>> be used to convert the exit status of a process, as returned by wait(3),
>>> to a human-readable string.
>>>
>>> Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Amit Kapila.
>>
>>
>> A minor point:
>>
>> +    Executing a command with<literal>PROGRAM</literal>  might be
>> restricted
>> +    by operating system's access control mechanisms, such as the SELinux.
>>
>> This doesn't read well.  Could this instead be amended to something more
>> like:
>>
>> "Executing a command with PROGRAM might be restricted by the operating
>> system's access control mechanisms, such as those enforced by
>> SELinux."
>
>
> Hmm, that doesn't feel like an improvement to me. I guess your version is
> more accurate, if you think that SELinux provides the access control
> mechanism, rather than that SELinux itself is an access control mechanism.
> But I don't think such accuracy is important here.
>
> (I note that there is a spurious "the" in my wording, though. Should be
> "..., such as SELinux")

My version also added a "the" before "operating system's".  So I guess
it's just a case of moving "the" from one place to another.

--
Thom


Re: pgsql: Add support for piping COPY to/from an external program.

От
Heikki Linnakangas
Дата:
On 27.02.2013 21:46, Thom Brown wrote:
> On 27 February 2013 19:12, Heikki Linnakangas<hlinnakangas@vmware.com>  wrote:
>> (I note that there is a spurious "the" in my wording, though. Should be
>> "..., such as SELinux")
>
> My version also added a "the" before "operating system's".  So I guess
> it's just a case of moving "the" from one place to another.

Sounds good, committed, thanks.

- Heikki


Re: pgsql: Add support for piping COPY to/from an external program.

От
Alvaro Herrera
Дата:
Heikki Linnakangas wrote:

> This creates a new function in pgport, wait_result_to_str(), which can
> be used to convert the exit status of a process, as returned by wait(3),
> to a human-readable string.

You have this:

+#ifndef FRONTEND
+   result = pstrdup(str);
+#else
+   result = strdup(str);
+#endif

This kind of thing is no longer necessary.  In frontend, libpgcommon
provides a pstrdup() implementation which is strdup() plus error check,
so you can reduce the above to simply

    result = pstrdup(str);

and it should work everywhere.

--
Álvaro Herrera                http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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