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1 files changed, 18 insertions, 103 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c
index 729d085c3ca..5ff4b1931da 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c,v 1.136 2003/04/16 04:37:58 tgl Exp $
+ * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c,v 1.137 2003/05/15 15:50:18 petere Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -180,8 +180,6 @@ static void get_join_vars(List *args, Var **var1, Var **var2);
static Selectivity prefix_selectivity(Query *root, Var *var, Oid vartype,
Const *prefix);
static Selectivity pattern_selectivity(Const *patt, Pattern_Type ptype);
-static bool string_lessthan(const char *str1, const char *str2,
- Oid datatype);
static Oid find_operator(const char *opname, Oid datatype);
static Datum string_to_datum(const char *str, Oid datatype);
static Const *string_to_const(const char *str, Oid datatype);
@@ -3619,51 +3617,21 @@ pattern_selectivity(Const *patt, Pattern_Type ptype)
/*
- * We want to test whether the database's LC_COLLATE setting is safe for
- * LIKE/regexp index optimization.
+ * Try to generate a string greater than the given string or any
+ * string it is a prefix of. If successful, return a palloc'd string;
+ * else return NULL.
*
* The key requirement here is that given a prefix string, say "foo",
* we must be able to generate another string "fop" that is greater
- * than all strings "foobar" starting with "foo". Unfortunately, a
- * non-C locale may have arbitrary collation rules in which "fop" >
- * "foo" is not sufficient to ensure "fop" > "foobar". Until we can
- * come up with a more bulletproof way of generating the upper-bound
- * string, the optimization is disabled in all non-C locales.
+ * than all strings "foobar" starting with "foo".
*
- * (In theory, locales other than C may be LIKE-safe so this function
- * could be different from lc_collate_is_c(), but in a different
- * theory, non-C locales are completely unpredictable so it's unlikely
- * to happen.)
+ * If we max out the righthand byte, truncate off the last character
+ * and start incrementing the next. For example, if "z" were the last
+ * character in the sort order, then we could produce "foo" as a
+ * string greater than "fonz".
*
- * Be sure to maintain the correspondence with the code in initdb.
- */
-bool
-locale_is_like_safe(void)
-{
- return lc_collate_is_c();
-}
-
-/*
- * Try to generate a string greater than the given string or any string it is
- * a prefix of. If successful, return a palloc'd string; else return NULL.
- *
- * To work correctly in non-ASCII locales with weird collation orders,
- * we cannot simply increment "foo" to "fop" --- we have to check whether
- * we actually produced a string greater than the given one. If not,
- * increment the righthand byte again and repeat. If we max out the righthand
- * byte, truncate off the last character and start incrementing the next.
- * For example, if "z" were the last character in the sort order, then we
- * could produce "foo" as a string greater than "fonz".
- *
- * This could be rather slow in the worst case, but in most cases we won't
- * have to try more than one or two strings before succeeding.
- *
- * XXX this is actually not sufficient, since it only copes with the case
- * where individual characters collate in an order different from their
- * numeric code assignments. It does not handle cases where there are
- * cross-character effects, such as specially sorted digraphs, multiple
- * sort passes, etc. For now, we just shut down the whole thing in locales
- * that do such things :-(
+ * This could be rather slow in the worst case, but in most cases we
+ * won't have to try more than one or two strings before succeeding.
*/
Const *
make_greater_string(const Const *str_const)
@@ -3699,18 +3667,16 @@ make_greater_string(const Const *str_const)
/*
* Try to generate a larger string by incrementing the last byte.
*/
- while (*lastchar < (unsigned char) 255)
+ if (*lastchar < (unsigned char) 255)
{
+ Const *workstr_const;
+
(*lastchar)++;
- if (string_lessthan(str, workstr, datatype))
- {
- /* Success! */
- Const *workstr_const = string_to_const(workstr, datatype);
+ workstr_const = string_to_const(workstr, datatype);
- pfree(str);
- pfree(workstr);
- return workstr_const;
- }
+ pfree(str);
+ pfree(workstr);
+ return workstr_const;
}
/* restore last byte so we don't confuse pg_mbcliplen */
@@ -3736,57 +3702,6 @@ make_greater_string(const Const *str_const)
return (Const *) NULL;
}
-/*
- * Test whether two strings are "<" according to the rules of the given
- * datatype. We do this the hard way, ie, actually calling the type's
- * "<" operator function, to ensure we get the right result...
- */
-static bool
-string_lessthan(const char *str1, const char *str2, Oid datatype)
-{
- Datum datum1 = string_to_datum(str1, datatype);
- Datum datum2 = string_to_datum(str2, datatype);
- bool result;
-
- switch (datatype)
- {
- case TEXTOID:
- result = DatumGetBool(DirectFunctionCall2(text_lt,
- datum1, datum2));
- break;
-
- case BPCHAROID:
- result = DatumGetBool(DirectFunctionCall2(bpcharlt,
- datum1, datum2));
- break;
-
- case VARCHAROID:
- result = DatumGetBool(DirectFunctionCall2(varcharlt,
- datum1, datum2));
- break;
-
- case NAMEOID:
- result = DatumGetBool(DirectFunctionCall2(namelt,
- datum1, datum2));
- break;
-
- case BYTEAOID:
- result = DatumGetBool(DirectFunctionCall2(bytealt,
- datum1, datum2));
- break;
-
- default:
- elog(ERROR, "string_lessthan: unexpected datatype %u", datatype);
- result = false;
- break;
- }
-
- pfree(DatumGetPointer(datum1));
- pfree(DatumGetPointer(datum2));
-
- return result;
-}
-
/* See if there is a binary op of the given name for the given datatype */
/* NB: we assume that only built-in system operators are searched for */
static Oid