| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)atentus(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Josh Jore <josh(at)greentechnologist(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, henry(at)zoo(dot)utoronto(dot)ca |
| Subject: | Re: Psql regex is NFA or DFA? |
| Date: | 2002-09-11 03:41:08 |
| Message-ID: | 24386.1031715668@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)atentus(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane dijo:
>> Friedl seems to think that the current Tcl regex engine (Henry's new
>> code) is the most advanced thing on the planet.
> Oh, so the TODO item "replace with newer code" is not just vaporware?
> Well, I won't try to compete with Spencer's code in that case.
The code is certainly not vaporware: Tcl's been using it for awhile.
But the code in a Tcl-independent package that we could easily use
is a different story. Perhaps you could offer Henry some help in
making it into a clean library package ...
regards, tom lane
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