| From: | Joachim Wieland <joe(at)mcknight(dot)de> |
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| To: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Michael Glaesemann <michael(dot)glaesemann(at)myyearbook(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Pathological regexp match |
| Date: | 2010-02-09 15:33:23 |
| Message-ID: | dc7b844e1002090733s2bee3891x809a4f4541e054c5@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:07 PM, David E. Wheeler <david(at)kineticode(dot)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
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