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

> >> >Again very clear, and caused by the indexing of regex's, as you suggest.
> >> >I can easily look for '|' in the string, and skip the optimization. Is
> >> >that the only special case I need to add?
> >>
> >> What about '{' ?
> >
> >Does it understand {? Man, what kind of regex library do we have?
>
> I vaguely recall that we used to support only "basic" regex. At least
> I thought so. Now looking into the source, I found we have supported
> "extended" regex. FYI, our regex routines definitely supprt '{'. See
> backend/regex/re_format.7.
>
> P.S. I will commit a small regex test program under
> backend/regex for the testing purpose.

I have just commited a fix to skip {} too.

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