Re: [HACKERS] Broken select on regular expression !!!

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Constantin Teodorescu <teo(at)flex(dot)ro>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Broken select on regular expression !!!
Date: 1999-05-21 04:39:55
Message-ID: 199905210439.AAA19033@candle.pha.pa.us
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> These all oddness are caused by the parser (makeIndexable). When
> makeIndexable sees ~* '^41|^des' , it tries to rewrite the target
> regexp so that an index can be used. The rewritten query might be
> something like:
>
> fld1 ~* '^41|^des' and fld1 >= '41|^' and fld1 <= '41|^\377'

I have just applied a fix to gram.y that should fix this case. Please
let me know how it works at your site. Thanks.

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