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-rw-r--r--src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c16
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c
index dbe930618bd..77986d4ca8b 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 1.147.2.1 2003/12/07 04:12:50 joe Exp $
+ * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c,v 1.147.2.2 2004/02/02 03:07:14 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -3738,6 +3738,11 @@ pattern_selectivity(Const *patt, Pattern_Type ptype)
*
* 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.
+ *
+ * NOTE: at present this assumes we are in the C locale, so that simple
+ * bytewise comparison applies. However, we might be in a multibyte
+ * encoding such as UTF-8, so we do have to watch out for generating
+ * invalid encoding sequences.
*/
Const *
make_greater_string(const Const *str_const)
@@ -3784,13 +3789,20 @@ make_greater_string(const Const *str_const)
/*
* Try to generate a larger string by incrementing the last byte.
*/
- if (*lastchar < (unsigned char) 255)
+ while (*lastchar < (unsigned char) 255)
{
Const *workstr_const;
(*lastchar)++;
+
if (datatype != BYTEAOID)
+ {
+ /* do not generate invalid encoding sequences */
+ if (!pg_verifymbstr((const unsigned char *) workstr,
+ len, true))
+ continue;
workstr_const = string_to_const(workstr, datatype);
+ }
else
workstr_const = string_to_bytea_const(workstr, len);