Tom Lane wrote:
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
OK, here is a patch that I think incorporates all the ideas discussed (including part of Mark Mielke's suggestion about optimising %_). There is now no special treatment of UTF8 other than its use of a faster NextChar macro.

Looks mostly pretty good.  I would suggest replacing tests "tlen == 0"
and "plen == 0" with "<= 0", just so the code doesn't go completely
insane if presented with invalidly-encoded data that causes it to step
beyond the end of data.  Also, this comment is not really good enough:

!               /*
!                * It is safe to use NextByte instead of NextChar here, even for
! * multi-byte character sets, because we are not following ! * immediately after a wildcard character.
!                */
!               NextByte(t, tlen);
!               NextByte(p, plen);
        }

I'd suggest adding something like "If we are in the middle of a
multibyte character, we must already have matched at least one byte of
the character from both text and pattern; so we cannot get out-of-sync
on character boundaries.  And we know that no backend-legal encoding
allows ASCII characters such as '%' to appear as non-first bytes of
characters, so we won't mistakenly detect a new wildcard."

                        

Done, and committed.

cheers

andrew

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