On 03/28/10 at 01:49pm, Loui Chang wrote: > On Mon 22 Mar 2010 02:51 +0800, lolilolicon wrote: > > Hi, I did a `grep -R LIKE aur-1.6.0` and it seems to me that changing > > four of those LIKE's to RLIKE would add Regexp support for package > > search. > > > > Currently, the only "regexp" supported by AUR are % and _. I think AUR > > should really somehow grow some support for real regular expressions. > > > > I'm not aware of any issue this may introduce, except for a little bit > > heavier on resources; adding a timeout on queries should avoid shitty > > regexp queries as well. > > Yeah it's something I've considered, but I haven't had a chance to > explore the issues that it may introduce. >
Will resources be an issue? I hope RLIKE or REGEXP won't introduce too much server load. I don't know if one can do some "regexp query attack" so it seems to me a harmless progress to make. Maybe put up an "aur-testing" page so users can help testing it out, then you guys can make the final decisions? Cheers
