Thread: pgsql: Fix regex_fixed_prefix() to cope reasonably well with regex

pgsql: Fix regex_fixed_prefix() to cope reasonably well with regex

From

tgl@postgresql.org (Tom Lane)

Date:

03 January 2007, 18:39:56

Log Message:
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Fix regex_fixed_prefix() to cope reasonably well with regex patterns of the
form '^(foo)$'.  Before, these could never be optimized into indexscans.
The recent changes to make psql and pg_dump generate such patterns (for \d
commands and -t and related switches, respectively) therefore represented
a big performance hit for people with large pg_class catalogs, as seen in
recent gripe from Erik Jones.  While at it, be more paranoid about
case-sensitivity checking in multibyte encodings, and fix some other
corner cases in which a regex might be interpreted too liberally.

Tags:
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REL8_0_STABLE

Modified Files:
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    pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt:
        regexp.c (r1.56.4.1 -> r1.56.4.2)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/regexp.c.diff?r1=1.56.4.1&r2=1.56.4.2)
        selfuncs.c (r1.169.4.5 -> r1.169.4.6)

(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c.diff?r1=1.169.4.5&r2=1.169.4.6)
    pgsql/src/include/utils:
        builtins.h (r1.252 -> r1.252.4.1)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/include/utils/builtins.h.diff?r1=1.252&r2=1.252.4.1)