Reject missing database name in pg_regress and cohorts.
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Wed, 30 Nov 2022 18:01:41 +0000 (13:01 -0500)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Wed, 30 Nov 2022 18:01:41 +0000 (13:01 -0500)
Writing "pg_regress --dbname= ..." led to a crash, because
we weren't expecting there to be no database name supplied.
It doesn't seem like a great idea to run regression tests
in whatever is the user's default database; so rather than
supporting this case let's explicitly reject it.

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Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACpMh+A8cRvtvtOWVAZsCM1DU81GK4DL26R83y6ugZ1osV=ifA@mail.gmail.com

src/test/regress/pg_regress.c

index dda076847a38a74a765ca1283226815e9d10ada1..f308da6c5034c43eaa0977d80c98859e23101343 100644 (file)
@@ -2182,6 +2182,17 @@ regression_main(int argc, char *argv[],
                optind++;
        }
 
+       /*
+        * We must have a database to run the tests in; either a default name, or
+        * one supplied by the --dbname switch.
+        */
+       if (!(dblist && dblist->str && dblist->str[0]))
+       {
+               fprintf(stderr, _("%s: no database name was specified\n"),
+                               progname);
+               exit(2);
+       }
+
        if (config_auth_datadir)
        {
 #ifdef ENABLE_SSPI