Although the SQL/JSON tech report makes reference to ECMAScript which
allows both single- and double-quoted strings, all the rest of the
report speaks only of double-quoted string literals in jsonpaths.
That's more compatible with JSON itself; moreover single-quoted strings
are hard to use inside a jsonpath that is itself a single-quoted SQL
literal. So guess that the intent is to allow only double-quoted
literals, and remove lexer support for single-quoted literals.
It'll be less painful to add this again later if we're wrong, than to
remove a shipped feature.
Also, adjust the lexer so that unrecognized backslash sequences are
treated as just meaning the escaped character, not as errors. This
change has much better support in the standards, as JSON, JavaScript
and ECMAScript all make it plain that that's what's supposed to
happen.
Back-patch to v12.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfdvDci4iqNF9fhRkTqhe-5_8HmzeLt56drH%2B_Rv2rNRqfg@mail.gmail.com
Non-backtracking flex parsers work faster than backtracking ones. So, this
commit gets rid of backtracking in jsonpath_scan.l. That required explicit
handling of some cases as well as manual backtracking for some cases. More
regression tests for numerics are added.
Discussion: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ik=a20b091faa&view=om&permmsgid=msg-f%3A1628425344167939063
Author: John Naylor, Nikita Gluknov, Alexander Korotkov
