pgsql: Reduce an unnecessary O(N^3) loop in lexer. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Andrew Gierth
Subject pgsql: Reduce an unnecessary O(N^3) loop in lexer.
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Msg-id E1fswXG-0001Oq-RW@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Reduce an unnecessary O(N^3) loop in lexer.

The lexer's handling of operators contained an O(N^3) hazard when
dealing with long strings of + or - characters; it seems hard to
prevent this case from being O(N^2), but the additional N multiplier
was not needed.

Backpatch all the way since this has been there since 7.x, and it
presents at least a mild hazard in that trying to do Bind, PREPARE or
EXPLAIN on a hostile query could take excessive time (without
honouring cancels or timeouts) even if the query was never executed.

Branch
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REL9_3_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/9923c934df437dd4a83b2b9921d314d8bfb292b3

Modified Files
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src/backend/parser/scan.l         | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++--------
src/bin/psql/psqlscan.l           | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++--------
src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/pgc.l | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++--------
3 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)


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