Re: COPY when 'filename' is a directory

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Brent Verner <brent(at)rcfile(dot)org>, Douglas Trainor <trainor(at)uic(dot)edu>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: COPY when 'filename' is a directory
Date: 2002-02-24 01:27:47
Message-ID: 27606.1014514067@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> {
> + struct stat st;
> fp = AllocateFile(filename, PG_BINARY_R);
> !
> ! if (fp == NULL)
> elog(ERROR, "COPY command, running in backend with "
> "effective uid %d, could not open file '%s' for "
> "reading. Errno = %s (%d).",
> (int) geteuid(), filename, strerror(errno), errno);
> +
> + fstat(fileno(fp),&st);
> + if( S_ISDIR(st.st_mode) ){
> + fclose(fp);
> + elog(ERROR,"COPY: %s is a directory.",filename);
> + }

This coding is WRONG. You do not use fclose() to release a file
opened with AllocateFile.

[ several other instances of same error in patch... ]

regards, tom lane

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