On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 20:48 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > So I went to see about making the changes to remove regex_flavor, and > was astonished to find that all the regex-related functions are already > marked immutable, and AFAICS always have been. This is clearly wrong, > and we would have to fix it if we weren't about to remove the GUC. > (In principle we should advise people to change the markings in existing > databases, but given the lack of complaints it's probably not worth the > trouble --- I doubt many applications change regex_flavor on the fly.)
Are you sure this wasn't intentional, because it breaks performance and we doubted that many applications would change regex_flavor on the fly? -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
