From 7fc1aad195b01c4ffe990fc705ff61d128dc0190 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard van der Hoff <richard@matrix.org>
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 00:53:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Drop search values with nul characters

https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/2187 contains a report of a port
failing due to nul characters somewhere in the search table. Let's try dropping
the offending rows.
---
 scripts/synapse_port_db | 11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/synapse_port_db b/scripts/synapse_port_db
index bc167b59a..dc7fe940e 100755
--- a/scripts/synapse_port_db
+++ b/scripts/synapse_port_db
@@ -376,10 +376,13 @@ class Porter(object):
                         " VALUES (?,?,?,?,to_tsvector('english', ?),?,?)"
                     )
 
-                    rows_dict = [
-                        dict(zip(headers, row))
-                        for row in rows
-                    ]
+                    rows_dict = []
+                    for row in rows:
+                        d = dict(zip(headers, row))
+                        if "\0" in d['value']:
+                            logger.warn('dropping search row %s', d)
+                        else:
+                            rows_dict.append(d)
 
                     txn.executemany(sql, [
                         (