Re: Tighten up a few overly lax regexes in pg_dump's tap tests

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Tighten up a few overly lax regexes in pg_dump's tap tests
Date: 2019-02-07 17:20:47
Message-ID: 20190207172046.GK10435@fetter.org
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On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 10:10:32AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 03:41:20PM +0100, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> > Correct. One could argue that the regex is still suboptimal since “COMMENT ON
> > DATABASE postgres IS ;” will be matched as well, but there I think the tradeoff
> > for readability wins.
>
> Okay, that looks like an improvement anyway, so committed after going
> over the tests for similar problems, and there was one for CREATE
> DATABASE and DROP ROLE. It is possible to have a regex which tells as
> at least one non-whitespace character, but from what I can see these
> don't really improve the readability.

Are you talking about \w+, or [^[:space:]]+, [^[:blank:]]+, or...?

Best,
David.
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