When running on Windows, canonicalize_path() converts '\' to '/'
to prevent confusing the Windows command processor. It was
doing that in a non-encoding-aware fashion; but in SJIS there
are valid two-byte characters whose second byte matches '\'.
So encoding corruption ensues if such a character is used in
the path.
We can fairly easily fix this if we know which encoding is
in use, but a lot of our utilities don't have much of a clue
about that. After some discussion we decided we'd settle for
fixing this only in psql, and assuming that its value of
client_encoding matches what the user is typing.
It seems hopeless to get the server to deal with the problematic
characters in database path names, so we'll just declare that
case to be unsupported. That means nothing need be done in
the server, nor in utility programs whose only contact with
file path names is for database paths. But psql frequently
deals with client-side file paths, so it'd be good if it
didn't mess those up.
Bug: #18735
Reported-by: Koichi Suzuki <koichi.suzuki@enterprisedb.com>
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Koichi Suzuki <koichi.suzuki@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18735-4acdb3998bb9f2b1@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 13
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