postgres/src/backend/regex/regexport.c
Tom Lane 12c9a04008 Implement lookbehind constraints in our regular-expression engine.
A lookbehind constraint is like a lookahead constraint in that it consumes
no text; but it checks for existence (or nonexistence) of a match *ending*
at the current point in the string, rather than one *starting* at the
current point.  This is a long-requested feature since it exists in many
other regex libraries, but Henry Spencer had never got around to
implementing it in the code we use.

Just making it work is actually pretty trivial; but naive copying of the
logic for lookahead constraints leads to code that often spends O(N^2) time
to scan an N-character string, because we have to run the match engine
from string start to the current probe point each time the constraint is
checked.  In typical use-cases a lookbehind constraint will be written at
the start of the regex and hence will need to be checked at every character
--- so O(N^2) work overall.  To fix that, I introduced a third copy of the
core DFA matching loop, paralleling the existing longest() and shortest()
loops.  This version, matchuntil(), can suspend and resume matching given
a couple of pointers' worth of storage space.  So we need only run it
across the string once, stopping at each interesting probe point and then
resuming to advance to the next one.

I also put in an optimization that simplifies one-character lookahead and
lookbehind constraints, such as "(?=x)" or "(?<!\w)", into AHEAD and BEHIND
constraints, which already existed in the engine.  This avoids the overhead
of the LACON machinery entirely for these rather common cases.

The net result is that lookbehind constraints run a factor of three or so
slower than Perl's for multi-character constraints, but faster than Perl's
for one-character constraints ... and they work fine for variable-length
constraints, which Perl gives up on entirely.  So that's not bad from a
competitive perspective, and there's room for further optimization if
anyone cares.  (In reality, raw scan rate across a large input string is
probably not that big a deal for Postgres usage anyway; so I'm happy if
it's linear.)
2015-10-30 19:14:19 -04:00

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/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*
* regexport.c
* Functions for exporting info about a regex's NFA
*
* In this implementation, the NFA defines a necessary but not sufficient
* condition for a string to match the regex: that is, there can be strings
* that match the NFA but don't match the full regex, but not vice versa.
* Thus, for example, it is okay for the functions below to ignore lookaround
* constraints, which merely constrain the string some more.
*
* Notice that these functions return info into caller-provided arrays
* rather than doing their own malloc's. This simplifies the APIs by
* eliminating a class of error conditions, and in the case of colors
* allows the caller to decide how big is too big to bother with.
*
*
* Portions Copyright (c) 2013-2015, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
* Portions Copyright (c) 1998, 1999 Henry Spencer
*
* IDENTIFICATION
* src/backend/regex/regexport.c
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
#include "regex/regguts.h"
#include "regex/regexport.h"
static void scancolormap(struct colormap * cm, int co,
union tree * t, int level, chr partial,
pg_wchar **chars, int *chars_len);
/*
* Get total number of NFA states.
*/
int
pg_reg_getnumstates(const regex_t *regex)
{
struct cnfa *cnfa;
assert(regex != NULL && regex->re_magic == REMAGIC);
cnfa = &((struct guts *) regex->re_guts)->search;
return cnfa->nstates;
}
/*
* Get initial state of NFA.
*/
int
pg_reg_getinitialstate(const regex_t *regex)
{
struct cnfa *cnfa;
assert(regex != NULL && regex->re_magic == REMAGIC);
cnfa = &((struct guts *) regex->re_guts)->search;
return cnfa->pre;
}
/*
* Get final state of NFA.
*/
int
pg_reg_getfinalstate(const regex_t *regex)
{
struct cnfa *cnfa;
assert(regex != NULL && regex->re_magic == REMAGIC);
cnfa = &((struct guts *) regex->re_guts)->search;
return cnfa->post;
}
/*
* Get number of outgoing NFA arcs of state number "st".
*
* Note: LACON arcs are ignored, both here and in pg_reg_getoutarcs().
*/
int
pg_reg_getnumoutarcs(const regex_t *regex, int st)
{
struct cnfa *cnfa;
struct carc *ca;
int count;
assert(regex != NULL && regex->re_magic == REMAGIC);
cnfa = &((struct guts *) regex->re_guts)->search;
if (st < 0 || st >= cnfa->nstates)
return 0;
count = 0;
for (ca = cnfa->states[st]; ca->co != COLORLESS; ca++)
{
if (ca->co < cnfa->ncolors)
count++;
}
return count;
}
/*
* Write array of outgoing NFA arcs of state number "st" into arcs[],
* whose length arcs_len must be at least as long as indicated by
* pg_reg_getnumoutarcs(), else not all arcs will be returned.
*/
void
pg_reg_getoutarcs(const regex_t *regex, int st,
regex_arc_t *arcs, int arcs_len)
{
struct cnfa *cnfa;
struct carc *ca;
assert(regex != NULL && regex->re_magic == REMAGIC);
cnfa = &((struct guts *) regex->re_guts)->search;
if (st < 0 || st >= cnfa->nstates || arcs_len <= 0)
return;
for (ca = cnfa->states[st]; ca->co != COLORLESS; ca++)
{
if (ca->co < cnfa->ncolors)
{
arcs->co = ca->co;
arcs->to = ca->to;
arcs++;
if (--arcs_len == 0)
break;
}
}
}
/*
* Get total number of colors.
*/
int
pg_reg_getnumcolors(const regex_t *regex)
{
struct colormap *cm;
assert(regex != NULL && regex->re_magic == REMAGIC);
cm = &((struct guts *) regex->re_guts)->cmap;
return cm->max + 1;
}
/*
* Check if color is beginning of line/string.
*
* (We might at some point need to offer more refined handling of pseudocolors,
* but this will do for now.)
*/
int
pg_reg_colorisbegin(const regex_t *regex, int co)
{
struct cnfa *cnfa;
assert(regex != NULL && regex->re_magic == REMAGIC);
cnfa = &((struct guts *) regex->re_guts)->search;
if (co == cnfa->bos[0] || co == cnfa->bos[1])
return true;
else
return false;
}
/*
* Check if color is end of line/string.
*/
int
pg_reg_colorisend(const regex_t *regex, int co)
{
struct cnfa *cnfa;
assert(regex != NULL && regex->re_magic == REMAGIC);
cnfa = &((struct guts *) regex->re_guts)->search;
if (co == cnfa->eos[0] || co == cnfa->eos[1])
return true;
else
return false;
}
/*
* Get number of member chrs of color number "co".
*
* Note: we return -1 if the color number is invalid, or if it is a special
* color (WHITE or a pseudocolor), or if the number of members is uncertain.
* The latter case cannot arise right now but is specified to allow for future
* improvements (see musings about run-time handling of higher character codes
* in regex/README). Callers should not try to extract the members if -1 is
* returned.
*/
int
pg_reg_getnumcharacters(const regex_t *regex, int co)
{
struct colormap *cm;
assert(regex != NULL && regex->re_magic == REMAGIC);
cm = &((struct guts *) regex->re_guts)->cmap;
if (co <= 0 || co > cm->max) /* we reject 0 which is WHITE */
return -1;
if (cm->cd[co].flags & PSEUDO) /* also pseudocolors (BOS etc) */
return -1;
return cm->cd[co].nchrs;
}
/*
* Write array of member chrs of color number "co" into chars[],
* whose length chars_len must be at least as long as indicated by
* pg_reg_getnumcharacters(), else not all chars will be returned.
*
* Fetching the members of WHITE or a pseudocolor is not supported.
*
* Caution: this is a relatively expensive operation.
*/
void
pg_reg_getcharacters(const regex_t *regex, int co,
pg_wchar *chars, int chars_len)
{
struct colormap *cm;
assert(regex != NULL && regex->re_magic == REMAGIC);
cm = &((struct guts *) regex->re_guts)->cmap;
if (co <= 0 || co > cm->max || chars_len <= 0)
return;
if (cm->cd[co].flags & PSEUDO)
return;
/* Recursively search the colormap tree */
scancolormap(cm, co, cm->tree, 0, 0, &chars, &chars_len);
}
/*
* Recursively scan the colormap tree to find chrs belonging to color "co".
* See regex/README for info about the tree structure.
*
* t: tree block to scan
* level: level (from 0) of t
* partial: partial chr code for chrs within t
* chars, chars_len: output area
*/
static void
scancolormap(struct colormap * cm, int co,
union tree * t, int level, chr partial,
pg_wchar **chars, int *chars_len)
{
int i;
if (level < NBYTS - 1)
{
/* non-leaf node */
for (i = 0; i < BYTTAB; i++)
{
/*
* We do not support search for chrs of color 0 (WHITE), so
* all-white subtrees need not be searched. These can be
* recognized because they are represented by the fill blocks in
* the colormap struct. This typically allows us to avoid
* scanning large regions of higher-numbered chrs.
*/
if (t->tptr[i] == &cm->tree[level + 1])
continue;
/* Recursively scan next level down */
scancolormap(cm, co,
t->tptr[i], level + 1,
(partial | (chr) i) << BYTBITS,
chars, chars_len);
}
}
else
{
/* leaf node */
for (i = 0; i < BYTTAB; i++)
{
if (t->tcolor[i] == co)
{
if (*chars_len > 0)
{
**chars = partial | (chr) i;
(*chars)++;
(*chars_len)--;
}
}
}
}
}