Re: [HACKERS] like/ilike improvements

Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> OK, here is a patch that I think incorporates all the ideas discussed
> (including part of Mark Mielke's suggestion about optimising %_). There
> is now no special treatment of UTF8 other than its use of a faster
> NextChar macro.

Looks mostly pretty good. I would suggest replacing tests "tlen == 0"
and "plen == 0" with "<= 0", just so the code doesn't go completely
insane if presented with invalidly-encoded data that causes it to step
beyond the end of data. Also, this comment is not really good enough:

> ! /*
> ! * It is safe to use NextByte instead of NextChar here, even for
> ! * multi-byte character sets, because we are not following
> ! * immediately after a wildcard character.
> ! */
> ! NextByte(t, tlen);
> ! NextByte(p, plen);
> }

I'd suggest adding something like "If we are in the middle of a
multibyte character, we must already have matched at least one byte of
the character from both text and pattern; so we cannot get out-of-sync
on character boundaries. And we know that no backend-legal encoding
allows ASCII characters such as '%' to appear as non-first bytes of
characters, so we won't mistakenly detect a new wildcard."

regards, tom lane