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* Update copyright for 2021Bruce Momjian2021-01-02
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* Reduce size of backend scanner's tables.Tom Lane2020-01-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, the core scanner's yy_transition[] array had 37045 elements. Since that number is larger than INT16_MAX, Flex generated the array to contain 32-bit integers. By reimplementing some of the bulkier scanner rules, this patch reduces the array to 20495 elements. The much smaller total length, combined with the consequent use of 16-bit integers for the array elements reduces the binary size by over 200kB. This was accomplished in two ways: 1. Consolidate handling of quote continuations into a new start condition, rather than duplicating that logic for five different string types. 2. Treat Unicode strings and identifiers followed by a UESCAPE sequence as three separate tokens, rather than one. The logic to de-escape Unicode strings is moved to the filter code in parser.c, which already had the ability to provide special processing for token sequences. While we could have implemented the conversion in the grammar, that approach was rejected for performance and maintainability reasons. Performance in microbenchmarks of raw parsing seems equal or slightly faster in most cases, and it's reasonable to expect that in real-world usage (with more competition for the CPU cache) there will be a larger win. The exception is UESCAPE sequences; lexing those is about 10% slower, primarily because the scanner now has to be called three times rather than one. This seems acceptable since that feature is very rarely used. The psql and epcg lexers are likewise modified, primarily because we want to keep them all in sync. Since those lexers don't use the space-hogging -CF option, the space savings is much less, but it's still good for perhaps 10kB apiece. While at it, merge the ecpg lexer's handling of C-style comments used in SQL and in C. Those have different rules regarding nested comments, but since we already have the ability to keep track of the previous start condition, we can use that to handle both cases within a single start condition. This matches the core scanner more closely. John Naylor Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACPNZCvaoa3EgVWm5yZhcSTX6RAtaLgniCPcBVOCwm8h3xpWkw@mail.gmail.com
* Update copyrights for 2020Bruce Momjian2020-01-01
| | | | Backpatch-through: update all files in master, backpatch legal files through 9.4
* Update copyright for 2019Bruce Momjian2019-01-02
| | | | Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.4
* Rename ecpg's various "extern.h" files to have distinct names.Tom Lane2018-12-01
| | | | | | | | | | | This should reduce confusion, and in particular make it safe to copy typename.c into preproc/ and compile it there. This doesn't affect anything outside ecpg, and particularly not end users, because these files don't get installed; they just exist to share declarations among the .c files of each subdirectory. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/31364.1543511708@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Update copyright for 2018Bruce Momjian2018-01-02
| | | | Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.3
* Update copyright via script for 2017Bruce Momjian2017-01-03
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* Use "%option prefix" to set API names in ecpg's lexer.Tom Lane2016-12-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Clean up some technical debt left behind by commit 72b1e3a21: instead of quickly hacking the name of base_yylex() with a #define, set it properly with "%option prefix". This causes the names of pgc.l's other exported symbols to change as well, so run around and modify the outside references to them as needed. Similarly, make pgc.l's external references to base_yylval use that variable's true name instead of a macro. The reason for doing this now is that the quick-hack solution will fail with future versions of flex, as reported by Дилян Палаузов. Hence, back-patch into 9.6 where the previous commit appeared, since it's likely people will build 9.6 with newer flex versions during its lifetime. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d845c1af-e18d-6651-178f-9f08cdf37e10@aegee.org
* Update copyright for 2016Bruce Momjian2016-01-02
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* Make operator precedence follow the SQL standard more closely.Tom Lane2015-03-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While the SQL standard is pretty vague on the overall topic of operator precedence (because it never presents a unified BNF for all expressions), it does seem reasonable to conclude from the spec for <boolean value expression> that OR has the lowest precedence, then AND, then NOT, then IS tests, then the six standard comparison operators, then everything else (since any non-boolean operator in a WHERE clause would need to be an argument of one of these). We were only sort of on board with that: most notably, while "<" ">" and "=" had properly low precedence, "<=" ">=" and "<>" were treated as generic operators and so had significantly higher precedence. And "IS" tests were even higher precedence than those, which is very clearly wrong per spec. Another problem was that "foo NOT SOMETHING bar" constructs, such as "x NOT LIKE y", were treated inconsistently because of a bison implementation artifact: they had the documented precedence with respect to operators to their right, but behaved like NOT (i.e., very low priority) with respect to operators to their left. Fixing the precedence issues is just a small matter of rearranging the precedence declarations in gram.y, except for the NOT problem, which requires adding an additional lookahead case in base_yylex() so that we can attach a different token precedence to NOT LIKE and allied two-word operators. The bulk of this patch is not the bug fix per se, but adding logic to parse_expr.c to allow giving warnings if an expression has changed meaning because of these precedence changes. These warnings are off by default and are enabled by the new GUC operator_precedence_warning. It's believed that very few applications will be affected by these changes, but it was agreed that a warning mechanism is essential to help debug any that are.
* Improve parser's one-extra-token lookahead mechanism.Tom Lane2015-02-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There are a couple of places in our grammar that fail to be strict LALR(1), by requiring more than a single token of lookahead to decide what to do. Up to now we've dealt with that by using a filter between the lexer and parser that merges adjacent tokens into one in the places where two tokens of lookahead are necessary. But that creates a number of user-visible anomalies, for instance that you can't name a CTE "ordinality" because "WITH ordinality AS ..." triggers folding of WITH and ORDINALITY into one token. I realized that there's a better way. In this patch, we still do the lookahead basically as before, but we never merge the second token into the first; we replace just the first token by a special lookahead symbol when one of the lookahead pairs is seen. This requires a couple extra productions in the grammar, but it involves fewer special tokens, so that the grammar tables come out a bit smaller than before. The filter logic is no slower than before, perhaps a bit faster. I also fixed the filter logic so that when backing up after a lookahead, the current token's terminator is correctly restored; this eliminates some weird behavior in error message issuance, as is shown by the one change in existing regression test outputs. I believe that this patch entirely eliminates odd behaviors caused by lookahead for WITH. It doesn't really improve the situation for NULLS followed by FIRST/LAST unfortunately: those sequences still act like a reserved word, even though there are cases where they should be seen as two ordinary identifiers, eg "SELECT nulls first FROM ...". I experimented with additional grammar hacks but couldn't find any simple solution for that. Still, this is better than before, and it seems much more likely that we *could* somehow solve the NULLS case on the basis of this filter behavior than the previous one.
* Update copyright for 2015Bruce Momjian2015-01-06
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* pgindent run for 9.4Bruce Momjian2014-05-06
| | | | | This includes removing tabs after periods in C comments, which was applied to back branches, so this change should not effect backpatching.
* Update copyright for 2014Bruce Momjian2014-01-07
| | | | | Update all files in head, and files COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml in all back branches.
* Sync ECPG with WITH ORDINALITY changesGreg Stark2013-07-29
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* Update copyrights for 2013Bruce Momjian2013-01-01
| | | | | Fully update git head, and update back branches in ./COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml files.
* Update copyright notices for year 2012.Bruce Momjian2012-01-01
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* Stamp copyrights for year 2011.Bruce Momjian2011-01-01
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* Remove cvs keywords from all files.Magnus Hagander2010-09-20
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* Update copyright for the year 2010.Bruce Momjian2010-01-02
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* Update copyright for 2009.Bruce Momjian2009-01-01
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* Add WITH [NO] DATA clause to CREATE TABLE AS, per SQL.Peter Eisentraut2008-10-28
| | | | | | | Also, since WITH is now a reserved word, simplify the token merging code to only deal with WITH_TIME. by Tom Lane and myself
* Update copyrights in source tree to 2008.Bruce Momjian2008-01-01
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* pgindent run for 8.3.Bruce Momjian2007-11-15
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* Avoid having backend-only code compiled into ecpg. Per Zdenek KotalaTom Lane2007-10-26