ecpglib: call newlocale() once per process.

ecpglib has been calling it once per SQL query and once per EXEC SQL GET
DESCRIPTOR.  Instead, if newlocale() has not succeeded before, call it
while establishing a connection.  This mitigates three problems:
- If newlocale() failed in EXEC SQL GET DESCRIPTOR, the command silently
  proceeded without the intended locale change.
- On AIX, each newlocale()+freelocale() cycle leaked memory.
- newlocale() CPU usage may have been nontrivial.

Fail the connection attempt if newlocale() fails.  Rearrange
ecpg_do_prologue() to validate the connection before its uselocale().

The sort of program that may regress is one running in an environment
where newlocale() fails.  If that program establishes connections
without running SQL statements, it will stop working in response to this
change.  I'm betting against the importance of such an ECPG use case.
Most SQL execution (any using ECPGdo()) has long required newlocale()
success, so there's little a connection could do without newlocale().

Back-patch to v10 (all supported versions).

Reviewed by Tom Lane.  Reported by Guillaume Lelarge.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220101074055.GA54621@rfd.leadboat.com

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/interfaces/ecpg/ecpglib/ecpglib_extern.h b/src/interfaces/ecpg/ecpglib/ecpglib_extern.h
index 1a98dea1b55..c438cfb8209 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/ecpg/ecpglib/ecpglib_extern.h
+++ b/src/interfaces/ecpg/ecpglib/ecpglib_extern.h
@@ -59,6 +59,10 @@ struct ECPGtype_information_cache
 	enum ARRAY_TYPE isarray;
 };
 
+#ifdef HAVE_USELOCALE
+extern locale_t ecpg_clocale;	/* LC_NUMERIC=C */
+#endif
+
 /* structure to store one statement */
 struct statement
 {
@@ -73,7 +77,6 @@ struct statement
 	struct variable *inlist;
 	struct variable *outlist;
 #ifdef HAVE_USELOCALE
-	locale_t	clocale;
 	locale_t	oldlocale;
 #else
 	char	   *oldlocale;