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Re: Some regular-expression performance hacking

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2021-02-23T18:09:18Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> One of the recent commits have introduce a new warning with gcc 10, when
> building with optimizations:

Oddly, I see no such warning with Fedora's current compiler,
gcc version 10.2.1 20201125 (Red Hat 10.2.1-9) (GCC) 

Are you using any special compiler switches?

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Suppress unnecessary regex subre nodes in a couple more cases.

  2. Improve memory management in regex compiler.

  3. Extend a test case a little

  4. Allow complemented character class escapes within regex brackets.

  5. Suppress compiler warning in new regex match-all detection code.

  6. Avoid generating extra subre tree nodes for capturing parentheses.

  7. Convert regex engine's subre tree from binary to N-ary style.

  8. Fix regex engine to suppress useless concatenation sub-REs.

  9. Recognize "match-all" NFAs within the regex engine.

  10. Invent "rainbow" arcs within the regex engine.

  11. Make some minor improvements in the regex code.

  12. Display the time when the process started waiting for the lock, in pg_locks, take 2

  13. README/C-comment: document GiST's NSN value

  14. doc: Mention NO DEPENDS ON EXTENSION in its supported ALTER commands