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Rethink flex flags for syncrep_scanner.l.
Using flex's -i switch to achieve case-insensitivity is not a very safe practice, because the scanner's behavior may then depend on the locale that flex was invoked in. In the particular example at hand, that's not academic: the possible matches for "FIRST" will be different in a Turkish locale than elsewhere. Do it the hard way instead, as our other scanners do. Also, drop use of -b -CF -p, because this scanner is only used when parsing the contents of a GUC variable. That's not done often, and the amount of text to be parsed can be expected to be trivial, so prioritizing scanner speed over code size seems like quite the wrong tradeoff. Using flex's default optimization options reduces the size of syncrep_gram.o by more than 50%. The case-insensitivity problem is new in HEAD (cf commit 3901fd7). The poor choice of optimization flags exists also in 9.6, but it doesn't seem important enough to back-patch. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
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