Re: pg17.3 PQescapeIdentifier() ignores len

Hi,

On 2025-02-15 17:55:12 +0100, Christoph Berg wrote:
> Re: Andres Freund
> > I don't think that common uses of PQescapeIdentifier/Literal are likely to
> > catch the problem, so it's perhaps not too surprising it wasn't caught. Which,
> > I guess, shows that we really need more explicit edge-case coverage of at
> > least the most crucial APIs (we barely have any). There's pretty much no way
> > that pg_regress or TAP test style tests are going to catch a problem like
> > this.
>
> What I can do is to trigger regression tests on all packages on
> apt.postgresql.org after the minor releases have been built and then
> raise any flags before the release goes out.

I think that'd be *really* helpful. Of course that does require somebody
watching and raising an alarm...

Do you have ongoing package builds for sid or such?

> Except that pygresql isn't yet a package on apt.pg.o... will fix that
> now. This time, the problem was caught by Debian's CI machinery.

Are there regular outomated rebuilds that could tell us of such a problem
between the release being stamped and actually made?

Greetings,

Andres Freund