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

From: Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: 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 05:13:15
Message-ID: 3.0.1.32.19990520221315.00df0604@mail.pacifier.com
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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).

- Don Baccus, Portland OR <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
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