Re: BUG #19341: REPLACE() fails to match final character when using nondeterministic ICU collation

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, adam.warland@infor.com, pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2025-12-02T17:25:52Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> writes:
>>> for (const char *test_end = hptr; test_end <= haystack_end; test_end += pg_mblen(test_end))

> During the last iteration of the loop, "test_end" will be equal to "haystack_end",
> and the loop increment will call "pg_mblen(test_end)".

Right, clearly unsafe (and I bet valgrind would complain about it).
You need to rearrange the loop logic so that we won't attempt to
increment test_end that last time through.  Perhaps a for-loop
isn't the best way to write it.

			regards, tom lane