Adapt appendPsqlMetaConnect() to the new fmtId() encoding expectations.

We need to tell fmtId() what encoding to assume, but this function
doesn't know that.  Fortunately we can fix that without changing the
function's API, because we can just use SQL_ASCII.  That's because
database names in connection requests are effectively binary not text:
no encoding-aware processing will happen on them.

This fixes XversionUpgrade failures seen in the buildfarm.  The
alternative of having pg_upgrade use setFmtEncoding() is unappetizing,
given that it's connecting to multiple databases that may have
different encodings.

Andres Freund, Noah Misch, Tom Lane

Security: CVE-2025-1094

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/fe_utils/string_utils.c b/src/fe_utils/string_utils.c
index c7824591c41..0bad361b5b5 100644
--- a/src/fe_utils/string_utils.c
+++ b/src/fe_utils/string_utils.c
@@ -790,29 +790,38 @@ appendPsqlMetaConnect(PQExpBuffer buf, const char *dbname)
 		}
 	}
 
-	appendPQExpBufferStr(buf, "\\connect ");
 	if (complex)
 	{
 		PQExpBufferData connstr;
 
 		initPQExpBuffer(&connstr);
+
+		/*
+		 * Force the target psql's encoding to SQL_ASCII.  We don't really
+		 * know the encoding of the database name, and it doesn't matter as
+		 * long as psql will forward it to the server unchanged.
+		 */
+		appendPQExpBufferStr(buf, "\\encoding SQL_ASCII\n");
+		appendPQExpBufferStr(buf, "\\connect -reuse-previous=on ");
+
 		appendPQExpBufferStr(&connstr, "dbname=");
 		appendConnStrVal(&connstr, dbname);
 
-		appendPQExpBufferStr(buf, "-reuse-previous=on ");
-
 		/*
 		 * As long as the name does not contain a newline, SQL identifier
 		 * quoting satisfies the psql meta-command parser.  Prefer not to
 		 * involve psql-interpreted single quotes, which behaved differently
 		 * before PostgreSQL 9.2.
 		 */
-		appendPQExpBufferStr(buf, fmtId(connstr.data));
+		appendPQExpBufferStr(buf, fmtIdEnc(connstr.data, PG_SQL_ASCII));
 
 		termPQExpBuffer(&connstr);
 	}
 	else
-		appendPQExpBufferStr(buf, fmtId(dbname));
+	{
+		appendPQExpBufferStr(buf, "\\connect ");
+		appendPQExpBufferStr(buf, fmtIdEnc(dbname, PG_SQL_ASCII));
+	}
 	appendPQExpBufferChar(buf, '\n');
 }