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Doc Bug #71310 Can't use DSN with semicolons
Submitted: 2016-01-08 13:01 UTC Modified: 2021-11-11 15:16 UTC
From: sustmidown at centrum dot cz Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: PDO PgSQL
PHP Version: 5.6.17 OS: Linux x86-64
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2016-01-08 13:01 UTC] sustmidown at centrum dot cz 
Description:
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Manual page: http://www.php.net/pdo.construct
has no information about how to specify DSN parameters with special characters.

For example PostgreSQL supports database names containing slash (/) or even semicolon (;).
How should I encode DSN dbname parameter to connect to a database named "qwer;asdf"?

I tried:

$dsn = 'pgsql:host=127.0.0.1;dbname=asdf;asdf';
$dsn = 'pgsql:host=127.0.0.1;dbname=asdf\;asdf';
$dsn = 'pgsql:host=127.0.0.1;dbname=asdf%3basdf';
$dsn = 'pgsql:host=127.0.0.1;dbname=asdf%3Basdf';

but none of those works.

If I create database named "asdf/asdf", DSN:

$dsn = 'pgsql:host=127.0.0.1;dbname=asdf/asdf';

work, but according to https://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.database.db.intro-dsn.php
you should basicly url-encode parameters.

But both:

$dsn = 'pgsql:host=127.0.0.1;dbname=asdf%2fasdf';
$dsn = 'pgsql:host=127.0.0.1;dbname=asdf%2Fasdf';

do not work.

Expected result:
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PDO constructor should support DSN string that contain database name with semicolon in it.

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 [2017-10-24 08:31 UTC] kalle@php.net
-Package: PDO Core +Package: PDO related
 [2021-09-23 13:00 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Verified -Type: Bug +Type: Documentation Problem -Package: PDO related +Package: PDO PgSQL
 [2021-09-23 13:00 UTC] cmb@php.net 
> Manual page: http://www.php.net/pdo.construct
> has no information about how to specify DSN parameters with
> special characters.

Since this is driver specific, it should be documented in the
driver specific documentation[1]; in this case on the PDO_PGSQL
DSN page[2].

The PDO_PGSQL driver passes the almost unmodified connection
string to PQconnectdb (how this is interpreted is documented in
the PostgreSQL manual[3]).  However, since PDO DSN strings are
usually delimited by semicolons, but PostgreSQL expects space
delimited strings, the PDO_PGSQL driver automatically replaces all
semicolons with spaces[4], so you cannot connect to databases
whose names contain semicolons; this is likely an oversight; OTOH,
why would a database name contain a semicolon?  I don't think this
will be fixed, so I'm changing to doc problem.

> […] but according to
> https://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.database.db.intro-dsn.php
> you should basicly url-encode parameters.

What has PEAR:DB to do with PDO?

[1] <https://www.php.net/manual/en/pdo.drivers.php>
[2] <https://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdo-pgsql.connection.php>
[3] <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/libpq-connect.html#LIBPQ-CONNSTRING>
[4] <https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.4.24/ext/pdo_pgsql/pgsql_driver.c#L1207-L1214>
 [2021-11-11 15:16 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Summary: Not clear how to enter DSN with special characters +Summary: Can't use DSN with semicolons
 [2021-11-11 15:17 UTC] git@php.net 
Automatic comment on behalf of cmb69
Revision: https://github.com/php/doc-en/commit/1c9673edff353448cea363611229f382c08765d0
Log: Fix #71310: Can't use DSN with semicolons
 [2021-11-11 15:17 UTC] git@php.net
-Status: Verified +Status: Closed
 
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