Re: PG 13 release notes, first draft (ltree dot star)

On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 03:09:47PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > In ltree, when using adjacent asterisks with braces, e.g. "*{2}.*{3}", properly interpret that as "*{5}" (Nikita Glukhov)
>
> I think that should say ".*" not "*", as in:
>
> > In ltree, when using adjacent asterisks with braces, e.g. ".*{2}.*{3}", properly interpret that as "*{5}" (Nikita Glukhov)
>
> The existing text clearly came from the commit message, which (based on its
> regression tests) I think was the source of the missing dot.
>
> commit 9950c8aadf0edd31baec74a729d47d94af636c06
> Author: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
> Date: Sat Mar 28 18:31:05 2020 -0400
>
> Fix lquery's behavior for consecutive '*' items.
>
> Something like "*{2}.*{3}" should presumably mean the same as
> "*{5}", but it didn't. Improve that.
> ...

OK, fixed to be:

In ltree, when using adjacent asterisks with braces, e.g. ".*{2}.*{3}",
properly interpret that as ".*{5}" (Nikita Glukhov)

I added two dots.

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