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Bug: special char in dbname is not correctly handled #77

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@kainwen

Reproduce Steps

First go to Postgres to create a database:

CREATE DATABASE "funny""db'with\\quotes";

Then run the following python code:

In [1]: import pgdb

In [2]: dbname = 'funny\"db\'with\\\\quotes'

In [3]: pgdb.connect(database=dbname)
Out[3]: <pgdb.Connection at 0x10e4f0af0>

In [4]: pgdb.connect(database=dbname, port=5432)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
InternalError                             Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-4-ac96bf54cbc4> in <module>
----> 1 pgdb.connect(database=dbname, port=5432)

/Library/Python/3.8/site-packages/pgdb.py in connect(dsn, user, password, host, database, **kwargs)
   1725     # open the connection
   1726     # noinspection PyArgumentList
-> 1727     cnx = _connect(dbname, dbhost, dbport, dbopt, dbuser, dbpasswd)
   1728     return Connection(cnx)
   1729

InternalError: connection to server on socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432" failed: FATAL:  database "funny"db'with\quotes" does not exist

The strange thing is:

  • [3] is OK
  • [4] errors out

RCA

[4] pass port=5432 as kwarg, so it will enter this line of code https://github.com/PyGreSQL/PyGreSQL/blob/master/pgdb.py#L1721, and here it only escape dbname when there is space in dbname.

And the dbname variable here is confusing, it will also add port in the string.

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