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When running on Windows, canonicalize_path() converts '\' to '/' to prevent confusing the Windows command processor. It was doing that in a non-encoding-aware fashion; but in SJIS there are valid two-byte characters whose second byte matches '\'. So encoding corruption ensues if such a character is used in the path. We can fairly easily fix this if we know which encoding is in use, but a lot of our utilities don't have much of a clue about that. After some discussion we decided we'd settle for fixing this only in psql, and assuming that its value of client_encoding matches what the user is typing. It seems hopeless to get the server to deal with the problematic characters in database path names, so we'll just declare that case to be unsupported. That means nothing need be done in the server, nor in utility programs whose only contact with file path names is for database paths. But psql frequently deals with client-side file paths, so it'd be good if it didn't mess those up. Bug: #18735 Reported-by: Koichi Suzuki <koichi.suzuki@enterprisedb.com> Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Reviewed-by: Koichi Suzuki <koichi.suzuki@enterprisedb.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18735-4acdb3998bb9f2b1@postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 13
src/port/README
libpgport
=========
libpgport must have special behavior. It supplies functions to both
libraries and applications. However, there are two complexities:
1) Libraries need to use object files that are compiled with exactly
the same flags as the library. libpgport might not use the same flags,
so it is necessary to recompile the object files for individual
libraries. This is done by removing -lpgport from the link line:
# Need to recompile any libpgport object files
LIBS := $(filter-out -lpgport, $(LIBS))
and adding infrastructure to recompile the object files:
OBJS= execute.o typename.o descriptor.o data.o error.o prepare.o memory.o \
connect.o misc.o path.o exec.o \
$(filter strlcat.o, $(LIBOBJS))
The problem is that there is no testing of which object files need to be
added, but missing functions usually show up when linking user
applications.
2) For applications, we use -lpgport before -lpq, so the static files
from libpgport are linked first. This avoids having applications
dependent on symbols that are _used_ by libpq, but not intended to be
exported by libpq. libpq's libpgport usage changes over time, so such a
dependency is a problem. Windows, Linux, and macOS use an export
list to control the symbols exported by libpq.