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Make contrib/unaccent's unaccent() function work when not in search path.
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Thu, 6 Sep 2018 14:49:45 +0000 (10:49 -0400)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Thu, 6 Sep 2018 14:49:45 +0000 (10:49 -0400)
commita5322ca10fa16bed01e3e3d6c49c0f49c68b5593
tree9c9195af585385681b6b9385c589b3ae353a57c7
parent842cb9fa62fc99598086166bdeec9d6ae6e3c50f
Make contrib/unaccent's unaccent() function work when not in search path.

Since the fixes for CVE-2018-1058, we've advised people to schema-qualify
function references in order to fix failures in code that executes under
a minimal search_path setting.  However, that's insufficient to make the
single-argument form of unaccent() work, because it looks up the "unaccent"
text search dictionary using the search path.

The most expedient answer seems to be to remove the search_path dependency
by making it look in the same schema that the unaccent() function itself
is declared in.  This will definitely work for the normal usage of this
function with the unaccent dictionary provided by the extension.
It's barely possible that there are people who were relying on the
search-path-dependent behavior to select other dictionaries with the same
name; but if there are any such people at all, they can still get that
behavior by writing unaccent('unaccent', ...), or possibly
unaccent('unaccent'::text::regdictionary, ...) if the lookup has to be
postponed to runtime.

Per complaint from Gunnlaugur Thor Briem.  Back-patch to all supported
branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPs+M8LCex6d=DeneofdsoJVijaG59m9V0ggbb3pOH7hZO4+cQ@mail.gmail.com
contrib/unaccent/unaccent.c
doc/src/sgml/unaccent.sgml