Fix issue with reading zero bytes in Gzip_read.

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: 1518b7d76aadcbdffa6214555b82b995e7404b38
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2025-10-13T16:44:20Z
Releases: 16.11
Fix issue with reading zero bytes in Gzip_read.

pg_dump expects a read request of zero bytes to be a no-op; see for
example ReadStr().  Gzip_read got this wrong and falsely supposed
that the resulting gzret == 0 indicated an error.  We could complicate
that error-checking logic some more, but it seems best to just fall
out immediately when passed size == 0.

This bug breaks the nominally-supported case of manually gzip'ing
the toc.dat file within a directory-style dump, so back-patch to v16
where this code came in.  (Prior branches already have a short-circuit
for size == 0 before their only gzread call.)

Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3515357.1760128017@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch-through: 16

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src/bin/pg_dump/compress_gzip.c modified +4 −0

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