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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: josh@agliodbs.com
Cc: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Ok, how do I debug THIS?
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 19:22:20 -0400
Message-ID: <19270.1052868140@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200305131245.26203.josh@agliodbs.com>
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Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> I just did a head.  Note the line count above.  It's only 147
>> lines, but the error refers to line 206.

> Obviously postgres is counting lines differently from you.

Just FYI, I noticed the other day while testing some plpgsql changes
that the 7.3 plpgsql seems to double-count newlines appearing inside
quoted literals --- that is, if you have a syntax error appearing after
a multiline literal, the reported line number will be too large.  This
seems to explain Larry's bizarre message, since most of the function
was being taken as a multiline literal.

The reason I noticed this was that the updated version counts correctly,
and thus gave different answers.  I don't know exactly where the bug
really was --- the changes involved ripping out the use of yylineno
entirely, so I did not look to see just where the double counting had
been happening.

			regards, tom lane




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