Fix text substring search for non-deterministic collations.
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Sat, 6 Dec 2025 01:10:33 +0000 (20:10 -0500)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Sat, 6 Dec 2025 01:10:33 +0000 (20:10 -0500)
commit6dfce8420e99d8cf41ffb7da698caee57fd73eb7
treefadeddc960089a51d8a257b854b4a84c591fbc7e
parent7c2061bdfba7c738dac1e2c14db51faeef3f34b1
Fix text substring search for non-deterministic collations.

Due to an off-by-one error, the code failed to find matches at the
end of the haystack.  Fix by rewriting the loop.

While at it, fix a comment that claimed that the function could find
a zero-length match.  Such a match could send a caller into an endless
loop.  However, zero-length matches only make sense with an empty
search string, and that case is explicitly excluded by all callers.
To make sure it stays that way, add an Assert and a comment.

Bug: #19341
Reported-by: Adam Warland <adam.warland@infor.com>
Author: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19341-1d9a22915edfec58@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 18
src/backend/utils/adt/varlena.c
src/test/regress/expected/collate.icu.utf8.out
src/test/regress/sql/collate.icu.utf8.sql