Re: Row pattern recognition
Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>
From: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>
To: li.evan.chao@gmail.com
Cc: vik@postgresfriends.org, david.g.johnston@gmail.com,
jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com, er@xs4all.nl, peter@eisentraut.org,
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Date: 2025-11-27T01:16:42Z
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> I just finished reviewing 0007 and 0008. This patch set really demonstrates the full lifecycle of adding a SQL feature, from changing the syntax in gram.y all the way down to the executor, including tests and docs. I learned a lot from it. Thanks!
You are welcome!
> 23 - 0007
>
> As you mentioned earlier, pattern regular expression support *, + and ?, but I don’t see ? is tested.
Good catch. I will add the test case. In the mean time I found a bug
with gram.y part which handles '?' quantifier. gram.y can be
successfully compiled but there's no way to put '?' quantifier in a
SQL statement. We cannot write directly "ColId '?'" like other
quantifier '*' and '+' in the grammer because '?' is not a "self"
token. So we let '?' matches Op first then check if it's '?' or
not.
| ColId Op
{
if (strcmp("?", $2))
ereport(ERROR,
errcode(ERRCODE_SYNTAX_ERROR),
errmsg("unsupported quantifier"),
parser_errposition(@2));
$$ = (Node *) makeSimpleA_Expr(AEXPR_OP, "?", (Node *)makeString($1), NULL, @1);
}
Another bug was with executor (nodeWindowAgg.c). The code to check
greedy quantifiers missed the case '?'.
> 24 - 0007
>
> I don’t see negative tests for unsupported quantifiers, like PATTERN (A+?).
I will add such test cases.
> 25 - 0007
> ```
> +-- basic test with none greedy pattern
> ```
>
> Typo: “none greedy” -> non-greedy
Will fix.
> No comment for 0008.
Thanks again for the review. I will post v35 patch set soon. Attached
is the diff from v34.
Best regards,
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Tatsuo Ishii
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