Re: BUG #15827: Unable to connect on Windows using pg_services.conf using Python psycopg2

Jorge Gustavo Rocha <jgr@geomaster.pt> writes:
> The '\r' on pg_services.conf is causing problems on Windows. The
> parseServiceFile function returns the host or hostaddr with a trialing
> '\r'. Subsequent attempts to turn that into an address will fail.

So it would seem.

> I've checked the code, and parseServiceFile uses the standard C fgets
> library function. Since fgets copies all characters until '\n'
> (including the '\n'), the resulting line (right now) preserves the '\r'
> at the end, on Windows.

Well, that's exactly the question at issue: doesn't Windows' fgets()
convert \r\n to just \n?  I should think that it generally does, because
we have a *lot* of fgets() calls and a quick scan says that the majority
of them aren't taking care to get rid of \r.  If you can convince me that
this is actually a behavior seen in the wild, we're going to need to
change way more places than just this one.

Googling for this didn't provide a lot of insight, although I did find
one person speculating that if you used GNU glibc on Windows it would not
strip \r.  That seems unlikely though.

Another possibility is that you're on a Unix machine but you're wishing
libpq would deal with a service file that has Windows-style newlines.

Anyway, I want some clarity about what's really happening here, because
I'm disinclined to touch several dozen call sites on the basis of
speculation.

> I've saw many people complaining of this tiny issue and I think it is
> easy to solve.

Nobody else has complained of this that I've heard of.  Please let's
deal in verifiable facts.

            regards, tom lane