From bd1ef5799b04168d8a869197dd9b85935d5d5da9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Lane Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 12:21:13 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Handle empty-string edge cases correctly in strpos(). Commit 9556aa01c rearranged the innards of text_position() in a way that would make it not work for empty search strings. Which is fine, because all callers of that code special-case an empty pattern in some way. However, the primary use-case (text_position itself) got special-cased incorrectly: historically it's returned 1 not 0 for an empty search string. Restore the historical behavior. Per complaint from Austin Drenski (via Shay Rojansky). Back-patch to v12 where it got broken. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADT4RqAz7oN4vkPir86Kg1_mQBmBxCp-L_=9vRpgSNPJf0KRkw@mail.gmail.com --- src/backend/utils/adt/varlena.c | 10 +++++++++- src/test/regress/expected/strings.out | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ src/test/regress/sql/strings.sql | 6 ++++++ 3 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/varlena.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/varlena.c index 722b2c722d..69165eb311 100644 --- a/src/backend/utils/adt/varlena.c +++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/varlena.c @@ -1118,7 +1118,12 @@ text_position(text *t1, text *t2, Oid collid) TextPositionState state; int result; - if (VARSIZE_ANY_EXHDR(t1) < 1 || VARSIZE_ANY_EXHDR(t2) < 1) + /* Empty needle always matches at position 1 */ + if (VARSIZE_ANY_EXHDR(t2) < 1) + return 1; + + /* Otherwise, can't match if haystack is shorter than needle */ + if (VARSIZE_ANY_EXHDR(t1) < VARSIZE_ANY_EXHDR(t2)) return 0; text_position_setup(t1, t2, collid, &state); @@ -1272,6 +1277,9 @@ text_position_setup(text *t1, text *t2, Oid collid, TextPositionState *state) * Advance to the next match, starting from the end of the previous match * (or the beginning of the string, on first call). Returns true if a match * is found. + * + * Note that this refuses to match an empty-string needle. Most callers + * will have handled that case specially and we'll never see it here. */ static bool text_position_next(TextPositionState *state) diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/strings.out b/src/test/regress/expected/strings.out index 2483966576..6d96843e5b 100644 --- a/src/test/regress/expected/strings.out +++ b/src/test/regress/expected/strings.out @@ -1420,6 +1420,24 @@ SELECT strpos('abcdef', 'xy') AS "pos_0"; 0 (1 row) +SELECT strpos('abcdef', '') AS "pos_1"; + pos_1 +------- + 1 +(1 row) + +SELECT strpos('', 'xy') AS "pos_0"; + pos_0 +------- + 0 +(1 row) + +SELECT strpos('', '') AS "pos_1"; + pos_1 +------- + 1 +(1 row) + -- -- test replace -- diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/strings.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/strings.sql index b5e75c344f..0afb94964b 100644 --- a/src/test/regress/sql/strings.sql +++ b/src/test/regress/sql/strings.sql @@ -492,6 +492,12 @@ SELECT strpos('abcdef', 'cd') AS "pos_3"; SELECT strpos('abcdef', 'xy') AS "pos_0"; +SELECT strpos('abcdef', '') AS "pos_1"; + +SELECT strpos('', 'xy') AS "pos_0"; + +SELECT strpos('', '') AS "pos_1"; + -- -- test replace --