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authorPeter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>2021-11-24 09:10:32 +0100
committerPeter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>2021-12-01 16:10:52 +0100
commitfb7f70112fd80f13a8f124f51c4992fe290d3836 (patch)
tree6b69a74df55b061a056ca908e185aeef3bd532b7 /src/fe_utils
parent75d22069e00d638d08c04e3aba71688f3fb002ed (diff)
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Improve some comments in scanner files
Reviewed-by: John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/b239564c-cad0-b23e-c57e-166d883cb97d@enterprisedb.com
Diffstat (limited to 'src/fe_utils')
-rw-r--r--src/fe_utils/psqlscan.l14
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/src/fe_utils/psqlscan.l b/src/fe_utils/psqlscan.l
index 0fab48a3825..b0fd4394ec6 100644
--- a/src/fe_utils/psqlscan.l
+++ b/src/fe_utils/psqlscan.l
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ extern void psql_yyset_column(int column_no, yyscan_t yyscanner);
* <xb> bit string literal
* <xc> extended C-style comments
* <xd> delimited identifiers (double-quoted identifiers)
- * <xh> hexadecimal numeric string
+ * <xh> hexadecimal byte string
* <xq> standard quoted strings
* <xqs> quote stop (detect continued strings)
* <xe> extended quoted strings (support backslash escape sequences)
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ quotecontinuefail {whitespace}*"-"?
xbstart [bB]{quote}
xbinside [^']*
-/* Hexadecimal number */
+/* Hexadecimal byte string */
xhstart [xX]{quote}
xhinside [^']*
@@ -279,7 +279,6 @@ xcstart \/\*{op_chars}*
xcstop \*+\/
xcinside [^*/]+
-digit [0-9]
ident_start [A-Za-z\200-\377_]
ident_cont [A-Za-z\200-\377_0-9\$]
@@ -318,15 +317,18 @@ self [,()\[\].;\:\+\-\*\/\%\^\<\>\=]
op_chars [\~\!\@\#\^\&\|\`\?\+\-\*\/\%\<\>\=]
operator {op_chars}+
-/* we no longer allow unary minus in numbers.
- * instead we pass it separately to parser. there it gets
- * coerced via doNegate() -- Leon aug 20 1999
+/*
+ * Numbers
+ *
+ * Unary minus is not part of a number here. Instead we pass it separately to
+ * the parser, and there it gets coerced via doNegate().
*
* {decimalfail} is used because we would like "1..10" to lex as 1, dot_dot, 10.
*
* {realfail1} and {realfail2} are added to prevent the need for scanner
* backup when the {real} rule fails to match completely.
*/
+digit [0-9]
integer {digit}+
decimal (({digit}*\.{digit}+)|({digit}+\.{digit}*))