On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:07 PM, David E. Wheeler <da...@kineticode.com> wrote: > On Feb 8, 2010, at 5:15 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: > >> The text is about 180Kb. PostgreSQL takes ~40 seconds without the >> patch, ~36 seconds with it, to extract the match from it. Perl takes >> 0.016 seconds. > > Obviously we need to support Perl regular expressions in core. Not PCRE, but > Perl. ;-P
FWIW, PCRE is BSD licensed, so we could actually include it... Would be interesting to see how it performs on the pattern at hand. Joachim -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
