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authorHeikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>2009-04-23 07:19:09 +0000
committerHeikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>2009-04-23 07:19:09 +0000
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varstr_cmp and any comparison function that piggybacks on it can return
any negative or positive number, not just -1 or 1. Fix comment on varstr_cmp and citext test case accordingly. As pointed out by Zdenek Kotala, and buildfarm member gothic moth.
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/varlena.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/varlena.c
index 5df6f05c337..052d0578ac7 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/varlena.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/varlena.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/varlena.c,v 1.169 2009/01/01 17:23:50 momjian Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/varlena.c,v 1.170 2009/04/23 07:19:09 heikki Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -1138,7 +1138,8 @@ text_position_cleanup(TextPositionState *state)
* Comparison function for text strings with given lengths.
* Includes locale support, but must copy strings to temporary memory
* to allow null-termination for inputs to strcoll().
- * Returns -1, 0 or 1
+ * Returns an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero, indicating
+ * whether arg1 is less than, equal to, or greater than arg2.
*/
int
varstr_cmp(char *arg1, int len1, char *arg2, int len2)