Fix pg_isblank()
Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Author:
Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Date: 2025-11-28T07:33:07Z
Releases:
19 (unreleased)
Fix pg_isblank() There was a pg_isblank() function that claimed to be a replacement for the standard isblank() function, which was thought to be "not very portable yet". We can now assume that it's portable (it's in C99). But pg_isblank() actually diverged from the standard isblank() by also accepting '\r', while the standard one only accepts space and tab. This was added to support parsing pg_hba.conf under Windows. But the hba parsing code now works completely differently and already handles line endings before we get to pg_isblank(). The other user of pg_isblank() is for ident protocol message parsing, which also handles '\r' separately. So this behavior is now obsolete and confusing. To improve clarity, I separated those concerns. The ident parsing now gets its own function that hardcodes the whitespace characters mentioned by the relevant RFC. pg_isblank() is now static in hba.c and is a wrapper around the standard isblank(), with some extra logic to ensure robust treatment of non-ASCII characters. Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/170308e6-a7a3-4484-87b2-f960bb564afa%40eisentraut.org
Files
| Path | Change | +/− |
|---|---|---|
| src/backend/libpq/auth.c | modified | +13 −4 |
| src/backend/libpq/hba.c | modified | +3 −6 |
| src/include/libpq/hba.h | modified | +0 −1 |
Discussion
- more C99 cleanup 9 messages · 2025-11-21 → 2025-12-02