Fix regex_fixed_prefix() to cope reasonably well with regex patterns of the
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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.
Files
| Path | Change | +/− |
|---|---|---|
| src/backend/utils/adt/regexp.c | modified | +10 −1 |
| src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c | modified | +96 −49 |
| src/include/utils/builtins.h | modified | +2 −1 |