Fix psql's \connect command some more.

tglsfdc · tglsfdc · commit ea8013854504 · 2021-03-23T14:27:50.000-04:00
Jasen Betts reported yet another unintended side effect of commit 85c5428: reconnecting with "\c service=whatever" did not have the expected results. The reason is that starting from the output of PQconndefaults() effectively allows environment variables (such as PGPORT) to override entries in the service file, whereas the normal priority is the other way around. Not using PQconndefaults at all would require yet a third main code path in do_connect's parameter setup, so I don't really want to fix it that way. But we can have the logic effectively ignore all the default values for just a couple more lines of code. This patch doesn't change the behavior for "\c -reuse-previous=on service=whatever". That remains significantly different from before 85c5428, because many more parameters will be re-used, and thus not be possible for service entries to replace. But I think this is (mostly?) intentional. In any case, since libpq does not report where it got parameter values from, it's hard to do differently. Per bug #16936 from Jasen Betts. As with the previous patches, back-patch to all supported branches. (9.5 is unfortunately now out of support, so this won't get fixed there.) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16936-3f524322a53a29f0@postgresql.org
diff --git a/src/bin/psql/command.c b/src/bin/psql/command.c
@@ -3132,6 +3132,25 @@ do_connect(enum trivalue reuse_previous_specification,
 						if (strcmp(replci->keyword, "password") == 0)
 							have_password = true;
 					}
+					else if (!reuse_previous)
+					{
+						/*
+						 * When we have a connstring and are not re-using
+						 * parameters, swap *all* entries, even those not set
+						 * by the connstring.  This avoids absorbing
+						 * environment-dependent defaults from the result of
+						 * PQconndefaults().  We don't want to do that because
+						 * they'd override service-file entries if the
+						 * connstring specifies a service parameter, whereas
+						 * the priority should be the other way around.  libpq
+						 * can certainly recompute any defaults we don't pass
+						 * here.  (In this situation, it's a bit wasteful to
+						 * have called PQconndefaults() at all, but not doing
+						 * so would require yet another major code path here.)
+						 */
+						replci->val = ci->val;
+						ci->val = NULL;
+					}
 				}
 				Assert(ci->keyword == NULL && replci->keyword == NULL);
 
