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-rw-r--r--src/backend/utils/adt/varchar.c20
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/varchar.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/varchar.c
index 0982fb95d4f..0fe34439178 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/varchar.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/varchar.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/varchar.c,v 1.102 2003/08/04 04:03:10 tgl Exp $
+ * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/varchar.c,v 1.102.4.1 2005/12/22 22:50:22 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -549,11 +549,14 @@ bpchareq(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
len1 = bcTruelen(arg1);
len2 = bcTruelen(arg2);
- /* fast path for different-length inputs */
+ /*
+ * Since we only care about equality or not-equality, we can avoid all
+ * the expense of strcoll() here, and just do bitwise comparison.
+ */
if (len1 != len2)
result = false;
else
- result = (varstr_cmp(VARDATA(arg1), len1, VARDATA(arg2), len2) == 0);
+ result = (strncmp(VARDATA(arg1), VARDATA(arg2), len1) == 0);
PG_FREE_IF_COPY(arg1, 0);
PG_FREE_IF_COPY(arg2, 1);
@@ -573,11 +576,14 @@ bpcharne(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
len1 = bcTruelen(arg1);
len2 = bcTruelen(arg2);
- /* fast path for different-length inputs */
+ /*
+ * Since we only care about equality or not-equality, we can avoid all
+ * the expense of strcoll() here, and just do bitwise comparison.
+ */
if (len1 != len2)
result = true;
else
- result = (varstr_cmp(VARDATA(arg1), len1, VARDATA(arg2), len2) != 0);
+ result = (strncmp(VARDATA(arg1), VARDATA(arg2), len1) != 0);
PG_FREE_IF_COPY(arg1, 0);
PG_FREE_IF_COPY(arg2, 1);
@@ -690,7 +696,9 @@ bpcharcmp(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
* bpchar needs a specialized hash function because we want to ignore
* trailing blanks in comparisons.
*
- * XXX is there any need for locale-specific behavior here?
+ * Note: currently there is no need for locale-specific behavior here,
+ * but if we ever change the semantics of bpchar comparison to trust
+ * strcoll() completely, we'd need to do something different in non-C locales.
*/
Datum
hashbpchar(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)