Split psql's lexer into two separate .l files for SQL and backslash cases.

This gets us to a point where psqlscan.l can be used by other frontend
programs for the same purpose psql uses it for, ie to detect when it's
collected a complete SQL command from input that is divided across
line boundaries.  Moreover, other programs can supply their own lexers
for backslash commands of their own choosing.  A follow-on patch will
use this in pgbench.

The end result here is roughly the same as in Kyotaro Horiguchi's
0001-Make-SQL-parser-part-of-psqlscan-independent-from-ps.patch, although
the details of the method for switching between lexers are quite different.
Basically, in this patch we share the entire PsqlScanState, YY_BUFFER_STATE
stack, *and* yyscan_t between different lexers.  The only thing we need
to do to switch to a different lexer is to make sure the start_state is
valid for the new lexer.  This works because flex doesn't keep any other
persistent state that depends on the specific lexing tables generated for
a particular .l file.  (We are assuming that both lexers are built with
the same flex version, or at least versions that are compatible with
respect to the contents of yyscan_t; but that doesn't seem likely to
be a big problem in practice, considering how slowly flex changes.)

Aside from being more efficient than Horiguchi-san's original solution,
this avoids possible corner-case changes in semantics: the original code
was capable of popping the input buffer stack while still staying in
backslash-related parsing states.  I'm not sure that that equates to any
useful user-visible behaviors, but I'm not sure it doesn't either, so
I'm loath to assume that we only need to consider the topmost buffer when
parsing a backslash command.

I've attempted to update the MSVC build scripts for the added .l file,
but will rely on the buildfarm to see if I missed anything.

Kyotaro Horiguchi and Tom Lane

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/bin/psql/command.c b/src/bin/psql/command.c
index 9750a5be3a5..eef6e4bd0bd 100644
--- a/src/bin/psql/command.c
+++ b/src/bin/psql/command.c
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 #include "large_obj.h"
 #include "mainloop.h"
 #include "print.h"
-#include "psqlscan.h"
+#include "psqlscanslash.h"
 #include "settings.h"
 #include "variables.h"