Re: strpos() && KMP

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Pavel Ajtkulov <ajtkulov(at)acm(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: strpos() && KMP
Date: 2007-08-01 23:12:35
Message-ID: 26247.1186009955@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Pavel Ajtkulov <ajtkulov(at)acm(dot)org> writes:
> this patch allow to use Knuth-Morrison-Pratt algorithm for strpos() function
> (see Cormen et al. Introduction to Algorithms, MIT Press, 2001).

This seems like a lot of complexity added to fix a non-problem. We've
had no complaints about the speed of those functions (at least not since
we changed the original O(N^2) method :-().

regards, tom lane

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