Re: UTF8MatchText

Tom Lane wrote:
> On the strength of this analysis, shouldn't we drop the separate
> UTF8 match function and just use SB_MatchText for UTF8?
>

Possibly - IIRC I looked at that and there was some reason I didn't, but
I'll look again.

> It strikes me that we may be overcomplicating matters in another way
> too. If you believe that the %-scan code is now the bottleneck, that
> is, the key loop is where we have pattern '%foo' and we are trying to
> match 'f' to each successive data position, then you should be bothered
> that SB_MatchTextIC is applying tolower() to 'f' again for each data
> character. Worst-case we could have O(N^2) applications of tolower()
> during a match. I think there's a fair case to be made that we should
> get rid of SB_MatchTextIC and implement *all* the case-insensitive
> variants by means of an initial lower() call. This would leave us with
> just two match functions and allow considerable unification of the setup
> logic.
>
>
>

Yeah, quite possibly. I'm also wondering if we are wasting effort
downcasing what will in most cases be the same pattern over and over
again. Maybe we need to look at memoizing that somehow, or at least test
to see if that would be a gain.

We're getting quite a long way from the original patch :-)

cheers

andrew