Introduce a psql "\connect -reuse-previous=on|off" option.

Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>

Commit: 9d924e9a64b91571e04252424c01210fc0f6f6d9
Author: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Date: 2016-08-08T14:07:46Z
Releases: 9.6.0
Introduce a psql "\connect -reuse-previous=on|off" option.

The decision to reuse values of parameters from a previous connection
has been based on whether the new target is a conninfo string.  Add this
means of overriding that default.  This feature arose as one component
of a fix for security vulnerabilities in pg_dump, pg_dumpall, and
pg_upgrade, so back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions).  In 9.3 and
later, comment paragraphs that required update had already-incorrect
claims about behavior when no connection is open; fix those problems.

Security: CVE-2016-5424

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doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml modified +12 −9
src/bin/psql/command.c modified +75 −34
src/bin/psql/startup.c modified +1 −1

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