Re: Underscore in positional parameters?

From: Erik Wienhold <ewie(at)ewie(dot)name>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org
Subject: Re: Underscore in positional parameters?
Date: 2024-05-14 16:07:51
Message-ID: 23c93d19-cb1b-46df-a970-d17d8a1c3791@ewie.name
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On 2024-05-14 16:40 +0200, Tom Lane wrote:
> Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On Tue, 14 May 2024 at 07:43, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
> >> On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 05:18:24AM +0200, Erik Wienhold wrote:
> >>> Parameter $1_2 is taken as $1 because in rule {param} in scan.l we get
> >>> the parameter number with atol which stops at the underscore. That's a
> >>> regression in faff8f8e47f. Before that commit, $1_2 resulted in
> >>> "ERROR: trailing junk after parameter".
>
> > I'm sure that this wasn't intentional -- I think we just failed to
> > notice that "param" also uses "decinteger" in the scanner. Taking a
> > quick look, there don't appear to be any other uses of "decinteger",
> > so at least it only affects params.
>
> > Unless the spec explicitly says otherwise, I agree that we should
> > reject this, as we used to do, and add a comment saying that it's
> > intentionally not supported. I can't believe it would ever be useful,
> > and the current behaviour is clearly broken.
>
> +1, let's put this back the way it was.

I split the change in two independent patches:

Patch 0001 changes rules param and param_junk to only accept digits 0-9.

Patch 0002 replaces atol with pg_strtoint32_safe in the backend parser
and strtoint in ECPG. This fixes overflows like:

=> PREPARE p1 AS SELECT $4294967297; -- same as $1
PREPARE
=> EXECUTE p1 (123);
?column?
----------
123
(1 row)

=> PREPARE p2 AS SELECT $2147483648;
ERROR: there is no parameter $-2147483648
LINE 1: PREPARE p2 AS SELECT $2147483648;

It now returns this error:

=> PREPARE p1 AS SELECT $4294967297;
ERROR: parameter too large at or near $4294967297

=> PREPARE p2 AS SELECT $2147483648;
ERROR: parameter too large at or near $2147483648

--
Erik

Attachment Content-Type Size
v2-0001-Forbid-underscore-in-positional-parameters.patch text/x-diff 3.4 KB
v2-0002-Fix-overflow-in-parsing-of-positional-parameter.patch text/x-diff 2.8 KB

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