Centralize single quote escaping in src/port/quotes.c

For code-reuse in upcoming functionality in pg_basebackup.

Zoltan Boszormenyi

src/bin/initdb/initdb.c

@@ -354,6 +354,18 @@ pg_strdup(const char *s)
 	return result;
 }
 
+static char *
+escape_quotes(const char *src)
+{
+	char *result = escape_single_quotes_ascii(src);
+	if (!result)
+	{
+		fprintf(stderr, _("%s: out of memory\n"), progname);
+		exit(1);
+	}
+	return result;
+}
+
 /*
  * make a copy of the array of lines, with token replaced by replacement
  * the first time it occurs on each line.
@@ -2415,35 +2427,6 @@ check_ok(void)
 	}
 }
 
-/*
- * Escape (by doubling) any single quotes or backslashes in given string
- *
- * Note: this is used to process both postgresql.conf entries and SQL
- * string literals.  Since postgresql.conf strings are defined to treat
- * backslashes as escapes, we have to double backslashes here.	Hence,
- * when using this for a SQL string literal, use E'' syntax.
- *
- * We do not need to worry about encoding considerations because all
- * valid backend encodings are ASCII-safe.
- */
-static char *
-escape_quotes(const char *src)
-{
-	int			len = strlen(src),
-				i,
-				j;
-	char	   *result = pg_malloc(len * 2 + 1);
-
-	for (i = 0, j = 0; i < len; i++)
-	{
-		if (SQL_STR_DOUBLE(src[i], true))
-			result[j++] = src[i];
-		result[j++] = src[i];
-	}
-	result[j] = '\0';
-	return result;
-}
-
 /* Hack to suppress a warning about %x from some versions of gcc */
 static inline size_t
 my_strftime(char *s, size_t max, const char *fmt, const struct tm * tm)

src/include/port.h

@@ -465,4 +465,7 @@ extern int	pg_check_dir(const char *dir);
 /* port/pgmkdirp.c */
 extern int	pg_mkdir_p(char *path, int omode);
 
+/* port/quotes.c */
+extern char *escape_single_quotes_ascii(const char *src);
+
 #endif   /* PG_PORT_H */

src/port/Makefile

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ LIBS += $(PTHREAD_LIBS)
 
 OBJS = $(LIBOBJS) chklocale.o dirmod.o erand48.o exec.o fls.o inet_net_ntop.o \
 	noblock.o path.o pgcheckdir.o pg_crc.o pgmkdirp.o pgsleep.o \
-	pgstrcasecmp.o qsort.o qsort_arg.o sprompt.o tar.o thread.o
+	pgstrcasecmp.o qsort.o qsort_arg.o quotes.o sprompt.o tar.o thread.o
 
 # foo_srv.o and foo.o are both built from foo.c, but only foo.o has -DFRONTEND
 OBJS_SRV = $(OBJS:%.o=%_srv.o)

src/port/quotes.c

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+#include "c.h"
+
+/*
+ * Escape (by doubling) any single quotes or backslashes in given string
+ *
+ * Note: this is used to process postgresql.conf entries and to quote
+ * string literals in pg_basebackup for creating recovery.conf.
+ * Since postgresql.conf strings are defined to treat backslashes as escapes,
+ * we have to double backslashes here.
+ *
+ * Since this function is only used for parsing or creating configuration
+ * files, we do not care about encoding considerations.
+ *
+ * Returns a malloced() string that it's the responsibility of the caller
+ * to free.
+ */
+char *
+escape_single_quotes_ascii(const char *src)
+{
+	int			len = strlen(src),
+				i,
+				j;
+	char	   *result = malloc(len * 2 + 1);
+
+	if (!result)
+		return NULL;
+
+	for (i = 0, j = 0; i < len; i++)
+	{
+		if (SQL_STR_DOUBLE(src[i], true))
+			result[j++] = src[i];
+		result[j++] = src[i];
+	}
+	result[j] = '\0';
+	return result;
+}

src/tools/msvc/Mkvcbuild.pm

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ sub mkvcbuild
 	  chklocale.c crypt.c fls.c fseeko.c getrusage.c inet_aton.c random.c
 	  srandom.c getaddrinfo.c gettimeofday.c inet_net_ntop.c kill.c open.c
 	  erand48.c snprintf.c strlcat.c strlcpy.c dirmod.c exec.c noblock.c path.c
-	  pgcheckdir.c pg_crc.c pgmkdirp.c pgsleep.c pgstrcasecmp.c qsort.c qsort_arg.c
+	  pgcheckdir.c pg_crc.c pgmkdirp.c pgsleep.c pgstrcasecmp.c qsort.c qsort_arg.c quotes.c
 	  sprompt.c tar.c thread.c getopt.c getopt_long.c dirent.c rint.c win32env.c
 	  win32error.c win32setlocale.c);