small bug in ecpg unicode identifier error handling

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
To: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-01-10T13:14:37Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
I think this patch is necessary:

diff --git a/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/pgc.l b/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/pgc.l
index 07fee80a9c..3529b2ea86 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/pgc.l
+++ b/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/pgc.l
@@ -753,7 +753,7 @@ cppline			{space}*#([^i][A-Za-z]*|{if}|{ifdef}|{ifndef}|{import})((\/\*[^*/]*\*+
  				}
  <xui>{dquote}	{
  					BEGIN(state_before_str_start);
-					if (literallen == 2) /* "U&" */
+					if (literallen == 0)
  						mmerror(PARSE_ERROR, ET_ERROR, "zero-length delimited identifier");
  					/* The backend will truncate the identifier here. We do not as it does not change the result. */
  					base_yylval.str = psprintf("U&\"%s\"", literalbuf);

The old code doesn't make sense.  The literallen is the length of the
data in literalbuf, which clearly doesn't include the "U&" as the
comment suggests.

A test case is to preprocess a file like this (ecpg test.pgc):

exec sql select u&"

which currently does *not* give the above error, but it should.



Commits

  1. ecpg: Catch zero-length Unicode identifiers correctly