On Fri, 2025-09-12 at 10:07 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Dominique Devienne <ddevienne@gmail.com> writes:
> > > This DOES look like a bug, no? I've done regexes for a long time,
> > > and these two forms should be equivalent IMHO. --DD
>
> Yeah, I agree it's busted. You can use EXPLAIN VERBOSE to see the
> translated-to-POSIX pattern, and it's wrong:
>
> regression=# explain verbose with t(v) as (values ('foo:bar'), ('foo/bar'),
('foo0bar'))
> select v from t where v similar to 'foo[\d\w]_%';
> QUERY PLAN
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Values Scan on "*VALUES*" (cost=0.00..0.05 rows=1 width=32)
> Output: "*VALUES*".column1
> Filter: ("*VALUES*".column1 ~ '^(?:foo[\d\w]_%)$'::text)
> (3 rows)
>
> The _ and % are not getting converted to their POSIX equivalents
> ("." and ".*").
Indeed, and I have to take the blame for introducing a bug in a minor
release :^(
The attached patch should fix the problem.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
