Hannu Krosing wrote: > I had a (false ?) memory that we used some variant of pcre, and that > pcre uses BM. I may be false on both accounts. (I know that python > borrowed its re module from pcre).
Our code is a derivative from Henry Spencer's code found in Tcl. It certainly isn't Boyer Moore, because it processes chars one at a time, left to right (BM processes right to left). -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org