Re: Could regexp_matches be immutable?

From: David E(dot) Wheeler <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Rod Taylor <rod(dot)taylor(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Could regexp_matches be immutable?
Date: 2009-10-21 16:41:40
Message-ID: 4B50CE5F-AC76-44D9-9FE4-B7E8783310AA@kineticode.com
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On Oct 21, 2009, at 9:40 AM, David E. Wheeler wrote:

> On Oct 21, 2009, at 9:37 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>>> Ooh, yeah, dunno how I missed that.
>>
>> I think we're probably stuck in 8.4, but we should fix it going
>> forward. Would you make a quick check if any of the other citext
>> functions have the same bug?
>
> I've fixed it in my [version for 8.3](https://svn.kineticode.com/citext/trunk
> ). Is there a straight-foward way to check such a thing
> programmatically, with a query perhaps? Or should I just put aside
> an hour to do an audit?

FWIW, I think that this is a bug, and that the variation from the text
version will be unexpected. I recommend fixing it for 8.4.2.

Best,

David

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