Re: Another regexp performance improvement: skip useless paren-captures

Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>

From: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Joel Jacobson <joel@compiler.org>
Date: 2021-08-10T01:24:35Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

> On Aug 9, 2021, at 6:17 PM, Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, this doesn't die either:

Meaning it doesn't die in the part of the pattern qualified by {0} either.  It does die in the other part.  Sorry again for the confusion.

—
Mark Dilger
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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Commits

  1. Fix regexp misbehavior with capturing parens inside "{0}".

  2. Let regexp_replace() make use of REG_NOSUB when feasible.

  3. Fix bogus assertion in BootstrapModeMain().

  4. Avoid determining regexp subexpression matches, when possible.

  5. Check the size in COPY_POINTER_FIELD

  6. Make regexp engine's backref-related compilation state more bulletproof.