Re: tip: weird parse error for pl/pgsql

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Keith Wong <keith(at)e-magine(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: tip: weird parse error for pl/pgsql
Date: 2000-08-22 15:03:53
Message-ID: 6812.966956633@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Keith Wong <keith(at)e-magine(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> It seems that pl/pgsql has a problem parsing Window style
> new line characters.

Ah-hah, good catch! I have fixed this bug for 7.1. If you want to
patch your local copy, the critical changes are:

*** src/pl/plpgsql/src/scan.l.orig Thu Jun 22 19:08:34 2000
--- src/pl/plpgsql/src/scan.l Tue Aug 22 10:59:28 2000
***************
*** 143,155 ****
* Ignore whitespaces but remember this happened
* ----------
*/
! [ \t\n]+ { plpgsql_SpaceScanned = 1; }

/* ----------
* Eat up comments
* ----------
*/
! --[^\n]* ;
\/\* { start_lineno = yylineno;
BEGIN IN_COMMENT;
}
--- 146,158 ----
* Ignore whitespaces but remember this happened
* ----------
*/
! [ \t\r\n]+ { plpgsql_SpaceScanned = 1; }

/* ----------
* Eat up comments
* ----------
*/
! --[^\r\n]* ;
\/\* { start_lineno = yylineno;
BEGIN IN_COMMENT;
}

regards, tom lane

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