Log Message:
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Fix regex_fixed_prefix() to cope reasonably well with regex patterns of the
form '^(foo)$'. Before, these could never be optimized into indexscans.
The recent changes to make psql and pg_dump generate such patterns (for \d
commands and -t and related switches, respectively) therefore represented
a big performance hit for people with large pg_class catalogs, as seen in
recent gripe from Erik Jones. While at it, be more paranoid about
case-sensitivity checking in multibyte encodings, and fix some other
corner cases in which a regex might be interpreted too liberally.
Tags:
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REL8_2_STABLE
Modified Files:
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pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt:
regexp.c (r1.66 -> r1.66.2.1)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/regexp.c.diff?r1=1.66&r2=1.66.2.1)
selfuncs.c (r1.214.2.1 -> r1.214.2.2)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c.diff?r1=1.214.2.1&r2=1.214.2.2)
pgsql/src/include/utils:
builtins.h (r1.282 -> r1.282.2.1)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/include/utils/builtins.h.diff?r1=1.282&r2=1.282.2.1)
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TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to
choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not
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