Fix psql \d commands to behave properly when a pattern using regex | is given.

Formerly they'd emit '^foo|bar$' which is wrong because the anchors are
parsed as part of the alternatives; must emit '^(foo|bar)$' to get expected
behavior.  Same as bug found previously in similar_escape().  Already fixed
in HEAD, this is just back-porting the part of that patch that was a bug fix.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/src/bin/psql/describe.c b/src/bin/psql/describe.c
index 0ace5de143..511d2b7a1a 100644
--- a/src/bin/psql/describe.c
+++ b/src/bin/psql/describe.c
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  *
  * Copyright (c) 2000-2005, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
  *
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/bin/psql/describe.c,v 1.129.2.3 2006/10/07 22:21:44 tgl Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/bin/psql/describe.c,v 1.129.2.4 2006/10/10 16:15:22 tgl Exp $
  */
 #include "postgres_fe.h"
 #include "describe.h"
@@ -1876,24 +1876,19 @@ processNamePattern(PQExpBuffer buf, const char *pattern,
 	{
 		/* We have a name pattern, so constrain the namevar(s) */
 
-		appendPQExpBufferChar(&namebuf, '$');
-		/* Optimize away ".*$", and possibly the whole pattern */
-		if (namebuf.len >= 3 &&
-			strcmp(namebuf.data + (namebuf.len - 3), ".*$") == 0)
-			namebuf.data[namebuf.len - 3] = '\0';
-
-		if (namebuf.data[0])
+		/* Optimize away a "*" pattern */
+		if (strcmp(namebuf.data, ".*") != 0)
 		{
 			WHEREAND();
 			if (altnamevar)
 				appendPQExpBuffer(buf,
-								  "(%s ~ '^%s'\n"
-								  "        OR %s ~ '^%s')\n",
+								  "(%s ~ '^(%s)$'\n"
+								  "        OR %s ~ '^(%s)$')\n",
 								  namevar, namebuf.data,
 								  altnamevar, namebuf.data);
 			else
 				appendPQExpBuffer(buf,
-								  "%s ~ '^%s'\n",
+								  "%s ~ '^(%s)$'\n",
 								  namevar, namebuf.data);
 		}
 	}
@@ -1902,16 +1897,11 @@ processNamePattern(PQExpBuffer buf, const char *pattern,
 	{
 		/* We have a schema pattern, so constrain the schemavar */
 
-		appendPQExpBufferChar(&schemabuf, '$');
-		/* Optimize away ".*$", and possibly the whole pattern */
-		if (schemabuf.len >= 3 &&
-			strcmp(schemabuf.data + (schemabuf.len - 3), ".*$") == 0)
-			schemabuf.data[schemabuf.len - 3] = '\0';
-
-		if (schemabuf.data[0] && schemavar)
+		/* Optimize away a "*" pattern */
+		if (strcmp(schemabuf.data, ".*") != 0 && schemavar)
 		{
 			WHEREAND();
-			appendPQExpBuffer(buf, "%s ~ '^%s'\n",
+			appendPQExpBuffer(buf, "%s ~ '^(%s)$'\n",
 							  schemavar, schemabuf.data);
 		}
 	}