Commit 5ac0d9360 failed to entirely fix bitshiftright's habit of
leaving one-bits in the pad space that should be all zeroes,
because in a moment of sheer brain fade I'd concluded that only
the code path used for not-a-multiple-of-8 shift distances needed
to be fixed. Of course, a multiple-of-8 shift distance can also
cause the problem, so we need to forcibly zero the extra bits
in both cases.
Per bug #16037 from Alexander Lakhin. As before, back-patch to all
supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16037-1d1ebca564db54f4@postgresql.org
If the bitstring length is not a multiple of 8, we'd shift the
rightmost bits into the pad space, which must be zeroes --- bit_cmp,
for one, depends on that. This'd lead to the result failing to
compare equal to what it should compare equal to, as reported in
bug #16013 from Daryl Waycott.
This is, if memory serves, not the first such bug in the bitstring
functions. In hopes of making it the last one, do a bit more work
than minimally necessary to fix the bug:
* Add assertion checks to bit_out() and varbit_out() to complain if
they are given incorrectly-padded input. This will improve the
odds that manual testing of any new patch finds problems.
* Encapsulate the padding-related logic in macros to make it
easier to use.
Also, remove unnecessary padding logic from bit_or() and bitxor().
Somebody had already noted that we need not re-pad the result of
bit_and() since the inputs are required to be the same length,
but failed to extrapolate that to the other two.
Also, move a comment block that once was near the head of varbit.c
(but people kept putting other stuff in front of it), to put it in
the header block.
Note for the release notes: if anyone has inconsistent data as a
result of saving the output of bitshiftright() in a table, it's
possible to fix it with something like
UPDATE mytab SET bitcol = ~(~bitcol) WHERE bitcol != ~(~bitcol);
This has been broken since day one, so back-patch to all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16013-c2765b6996aacae9@postgresql.org
Up to now, get_const_expr() insisted on prefixing BIT and VARBIT
literals with 'B'. That's not really necessary, because we always
append explicit-cast syntax to identify the constant's type.
Moreover, it's subtly wrong for VARBIT, because the parser will
interpret B'...' as '...'::"bit"; see make_const() which explicitly
assigns type BITOID for a T_BitString literal. So what had been
a simple VARBIT literal is reconstructed as ('...'::"bit")::varbit,
which is not the same thing, at least not before constant folding.
This results in odd differences after dump/restore, as complained
of by the patch submitter, and it could result in actual failures in
partitioning or inheritance DDL operations (see commit 542320c2b,
which repaired similar misbehaviors for some other data types).
Fixing it is pretty easy: just remove the special case and let the
default code path handle these types. We could have kept the special
case for BIT only, but there seems little point in that.
Like the previous patch, I judge that back-patching this into stable
branches wouldn't be a good idea. However, it seems not quite too
late for v11, so let's fix it there.
Paul Guo, reviewed by Davy Machado and John Naylor, minor adjustments
by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABQrizdTra=2JEqA6+Ms1D1k1Kqw+aiBBhC9TreuZRX2JzxLAA@mail.gmail.com
and implement OVERLAY() for bit strings and bytea.
In passing also convert text OVERLAY() to a true built-in, instead of
relying on a SQL function.
Leonardo F, reviewed by Kevin Grittner
to do that, but inconsistently.) Make bit type reject too short input,
too, per SQL. Since it no longer zero pads, 'zpbit*' has been renamed to
'bit*' in the source, hence initdb.
Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut