Fix regex_fixed_prefix() to cope reasonably well with regex patterns of the
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Wed, 3 Jan 2007 22:40:04 +0000 (22:40 +0000)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Wed, 3 Jan 2007 22:40:04 +0000 (22:40 +0000)
commit1faeda9cf95b57302e48a290ac39d6b4d6d6b86c
tree18cb07c85ff384641e3d696f7432e8c3ebb855f2
parent5923afc2f069a7654ac055433f505acbd0f4a35c
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.
src/backend/utils/adt/regexp.c
src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c
src/include/utils/builtins.h