Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Unicode escapes in E'...' strings Author: Marko Kreen

On 9/26/09, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 00:18 +0300, Marko Kreen wrote:
> > On 9/26/09, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > > Maybe it doesn't "need" to know, but I think it would be disastrous from
> > > a maintenance standpoint to not keep the two sets of flex rules in
> > > strict correspondence. It would soon become unclear whether or how to
> > > apply changes in the backend lexer to psql.
> >
> > Patch attached.
>
>
> That patch results in the following message from flex:
>
> psqlscan.l:1039: warning, -s option given but default rule can be
> matched

Agh. Well, that just means the <xeu> state must be commented out:

-%x xeu
+/* %x xeu */

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marko