>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> Should these limits:
>> a) be removed
Tom> Doubt it --- we could use the "huge" request variants, maybe, but
Tom> I wonder whether the engine could run fast enough that you'd want
Tom> to.
I do wonder (albeit without evidence) whether the quadratic slowdown
problem I posted a patch for earlier was ignored for so long because
people just went "meh, regexps are slow" rather than wondering why a
trivial splitting of a 40kbyte string was taking more than a second.
--
Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)