pgsql: Fix accidentally-harmless thinko in psqlscan_test_variable(). - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Tom Lane
Subject pgsql: Fix accidentally-harmless thinko in psqlscan_test_variable().
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Msg-id E1tzHoa-001xrS-1G@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Fix accidentally-harmless thinko in psqlscan_test_variable().

This code was passing literal strings to psqlscan_emit,
which is quite contrary to that function's specification:
"If you pass it something that is not part of the yytext
string, you are making a mistake".  It accidentally worked
anyway, even in non-safe_encoding mode.  psqlscan_emit
would compute a garbage "reference" pointer, but would
never dereference that since the passed string is all-ASCII.
So there's no live bug today, but that is a happenstance
outcome of psqlscan_emit's current implementation.

Let's make psqlscan_test_variable do what it's supposed to,
namely append directly to the output buffer.  This is just
future-proofing against possible changes in psqlscan_emit,
so I don't feel a need to back-patch.

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/2fd3e2fa5c908d05ac4d8b6c2c80fd50c506f32e

Modified Files
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src/fe_utils/psqlscan.l | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


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