Fix regex_fixed_prefix() to cope reasonably well with regex patterns of the

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: 85690a0e1a71d751076066f6093ea5498440f72c
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2007-01-03T22:39:49Z
Releases: 8.0.10
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

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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