Re: Open 7.3 items

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-08-18T02:36:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> OK, here is the patch with the suggested changes.  I am sending the
> patch to hackers because there has been so much interest in this.

One minor gripe:

> + 		/* If user@, it is a global user, remove '@' */
> + 		if (strchr(port->user, '@') == port->user + strlen(port->user)-1)

This code is correct, but it tempts someone to replace the strchr()
with a single-character check on the last character of the string.
Which would introduce the security hole we discussed before.  The
code is okay, but *please* improve the comment to point out that you
are also excluding the case where there are @'s to the left of the
last character.

			regards, tom lane