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Tom Lane 628cbb50ba Re-implement extraction of fixed prefixes from regular expressions. ... To generate btree-indexable conditions from regex WHERE conditions (such as WHERE indexed_col ~ '^foo'), we need to be able to identify any fixed prefix that a regex might have; that is, find any string that must be a prefix of all strings satisfying the regex. We used to do that with entirely ad-hoc code that looked at the source text of the regex. It didn't know very much about regex syntax, which mostly meant that it would fail to identify some optimizable cases; but Viktor Rosenfeld reported that it would produce actively wrong answers for quantified parenthesized subexpressions, such as '^(foo)?bar'. Rather than trying to extend the ad-hoc code to cover this, let's get rid of it altogether in favor of identifying prefixes by examining the compiled form of a regex. To do this, I've added a new entry point "pg_regprefix" to the regex library; hopefully it is defined in a sufficiently general fashion that it can remain in the library when/if that code gets split out as a standalone project. Since this bug has been there for a very long time, this fix needs to get back-patched. However it depends on some other recent commits (particularly the addition of wchar-to-database-encoding conversion), so I'll commit this separately and then go to work on back-porting the necessary fixes.		14 years ago
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regcustom.h	Remove cvs keywords from all files.	16 years ago
regerrs.h	Remove cvs keywords from all files.	16 years ago
regex.h	Re-implement extraction of fixed prefixes from regular expressions.	14 years ago
regguts.h	Re-implement extraction of fixed prefixes from regular expressions.	14 years ago