Rethink flex flags for syncrep_scanner.l.

Using flex's -i switch to achieve case-insensitivity is not a very safe
practice, because the scanner's behavior may then depend on the locale
that flex was invoked in.  In the particular example at hand, that's
not academic: the possible matches for "FIRST" will be different in a
Turkish locale than elsewhere.  Do it the hard way instead, as our
other scanners do.

Also, drop use of -b -CF -p, because this scanner is only used when
parsing the contents of a GUC variable.  That's not done often, and
the amount of text to be parsed can be expected to be trivial, so
prioritizing scanner speed over code size seems like quite the wrong
tradeoff.  Using flex's default optimization options reduces the
size of syncrep_gram.o by more than 50%.

The case-insensitivity problem is new in HEAD (cf commit 3901fd70c).
The poor choice of optimization flags exists also in 9.6, but it doesn't
seem important enough to back-patch.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/24403.1495225931@sss.pgh.pa.us

diff --git a/src/backend/replication/Makefile b/src/backend/replication/Makefile
index da8bcf0471cc9a227bf9d487398d65d26f45c8ec..562b55fbaaae748a276f7d080613a165907465c4 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/replication/Makefile
+++ b/src/backend/replication/Makefile
@@ -24,10 +24,9 @@ include $(top_srcdir)/src/backend/common.mk
 # repl_scanner is compiled as part of repl_gram
 repl_gram.o: repl_scanner.c
 
-# syncrep_scanner is complied as part of syncrep_gram
+# syncrep_scanner is compiled as part of syncrep_gram
 syncrep_gram.o: syncrep_scanner.c
-syncrep_scanner.c: FLEXFLAGS = -CF -p -i
-syncrep_scanner.c: FLEX_NO_BACKUP=yes
 
 # repl_gram.c, repl_scanner.c, syncrep_gram.c and syncrep_scanner.c
 # are in the distribution tarball, so they are not cleaned here.
+# (Our parent Makefile takes care of them during maintainer-clean.)

diff --git a/src/backend/replication/syncrep_scanner.l b/src/backend/replication/syncrep_scanner.l
index 7baf1b68d142eedd4864798ea48a2fced2ab6538..d1d1b26a480a01720f64fa40d2c4d6347414fceb 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/replication/syncrep_scanner.l
+++ b/src/backend/replication/syncrep_scanner.l
@@ -64,8 +64,10 @@ xdinside             [^"]+
 %%
 {space}+       { /* ignore */ }
 
-ANY            { return ANY; }
-FIRST          { return FIRST; }
+       /* brute-force case insensitivity is safer than relying on flex -i */
+
+[Aa][Nn][Yy]                   { return ANY; }
+[Ff][Ii][Rr][Ss][Tt]   { return FIRST; }
 
 {xdstart}      {
                                initStringInfo(&xdbuf);