Re: POLA violation with \c service=

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Erik Rijkers <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: POLA violation with \c service=
Date: 2015-03-20 12:43:37
Message-ID: 20150320124337.GB25493@fetter.org
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On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 08:42:29AM -0800, David Fetter wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 05:56:12PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >
> > David Fetter wrote:
> >
> > > My thinking behind this was that the patch is a bug fix and intended
> > > to be back-patched, so I wanted to mess with as little infrastructure
> > > as possible. A new version of libpq seems like a very big ask for
> > > such a case. You'll recall that the original problem was that
> > >
> > > \c service=foo
> > >
> > > only worked accidentally for some pretty narrow use cases and broke
> > > without much of a clue for the rest. It turned out that the general
> > > problem was that options given to psql on the command line were not
> > > even remotely equivalent to \c, even though they were documented to
> > > be.
> >
> > So, in view of these arguments and those put forward by Pavel
> > downthread, I think the attached is an acceptable patch for the master
> > branch. It doesn't apply to back branches though; 9.4 and 9.3 have a
> > conflict in tab-complete.c, 9.2 has additional conflicts in command.c,
> > and 9.1 and 9.0 are problematic all over because they don't have
> > src/common. Could you please submit patches adapted for each group of
> > branches?
>
> Please find patches attached for each live branch.

Is this getting into the upcoming bug fix releases? Does it need
rework to do so?

Cheers,
David.
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