From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> |
Cc: | Postgres Porting List <ports(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [Fwd: [PORTS] Port Bug Report: parse error not detected on unterminated quote] |
Date: | 1999-07-01 04:43:01 |
Message-ID: | 199907010443.AAA23367@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Bruce, the problem is revealed with the "single-line input" mode of
> psql. I'm a bit suprised that the backend parser doesn't catch this,
> but I see why now: scan.l goes into a "string accumulate" mode when it
> sees a single quote, and doesn't actually send a token back to gram.y
> until it sees the closing quote. If EOT comes first, then there is no
> flag to tell gram.y (or whatever is the right thing) that there is
> still an active token being worked on.
>
> Not certain yet how to fix this; the "string accumulator" is currently
> local to scan.l and I'm not sure if scan.l can provide code to check
> this after it runs out of characters to process. I do have a lex/yacc
> book, but if anyone has some hints...
I seem to remember there is a function you can define to be called on
EOF in scan.l.
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