>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

 >> Patch attached.
 >> This fixes two bugs: first the mis-lexing of two-char ops as mentioned
 >> originally; second, the O(N^3) lexing time of strings of - or +
 >> characters is reduced to O(N^2) (in practice it's better than O(N^2)
 >> once N gets large because the bison stack gets blown out, ending the
 >> loop early).

 Tom> Looks reasonable offhand (didn't test).  A couple of thoughts:

 Tom> * Some regression tests exercising these code paths might be a
 Tom> good thing.

Agreed. Any preferences where they should go?

 Tom> * There should likely be a comment near where EQUALS_GREATER and
 Tom> friends are defined, pointing out that if we add any more
 Tom> multi-character operators with special precedences, this code has
 Tom> to be taught about them.

Agreed; will do this.

-- 
Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)

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