Re: outfuncs.c utility statement support

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: outfuncs.c utility statement support
Date: 2017-06-22 03:02:45
Message-ID: 451c4c55-76f7-ad21-1476-2d998290f9cf@2ndquadrant.com
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On 6/18/17 10:14, Tom Lane wrote:
> pg_strtok recognizes "<>" and returns length = 0, so debackslash()
> would produce the right answer AFAICS (admittedly, I haven't tested).
> But I don't really want to do it like that because of the wasted
> palloc space and cycles.
>
>> Maybe
>> local_node->fldname = length ? token[0] : '\0';
>> ?
>
> Doesn't cope with backslash-quoted characters. If we're going to bother
> to do anything here, I think we ought to make it reversible for all
> possible characters.

Makes sense. Updated patch attached.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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v2-0001-Fix-output-of-char-node-fields.patch text/plain 2.3 KB

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