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

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp, 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 05:53:39
Message-ID: 199905210553.BAA20550@candle.pha.pa.us
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> At 12:08 AM 5/21/99 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> >But if we rip it out, people will complain we are not using the index
> >for regex and LIKE. That is a pretty serious complaint.
>
> For this release, given that it's coming fairly soon (11 days???)
> you might consider documenting the shortcomings, rather than
> ripping it out. Indexing is important, serious users will expect
> it, at least for LIKE (they might not know about regex if they're
> just SQL grunts).

I didn't even know our ~ operator supported '|'! Now I am told it know
about '{' too. I am checking on that one.

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