Re: Why is there a tsquery data type?

Added to TODO:

* Consider a special data type for regular expressions

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-08/msg01067.php

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Tom Lane wrote:
> Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com> writes:
> > Could similar logic argue that we'd want special types for regular
> > expressions too? That seems quite parallel to the tsquery type to me.
>
> Yeah, it certainly seems like something we might want to consider in
> future --- we could get rid of that klugy cache for compiled regexps,
> for one thing. An implicit cast from text to the regexp type would
> cover backwards compatibility issues, I think.
>
> regards, tom lane
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