Re: Future of our regular expression code - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Billy Earney
Subject Re: Future of our regular expression code
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In response to Re: Future of our regular expression code  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Thanks Tom.  I looked at the code in the libraries I referred to earlier, and it looks like the code in the regex directory is exactly the same as Walter Waldo's version, which has at least one comment from the middle of last decade (~ 2003).   Has people thought about migrating to the pcre library?  It seems to have a lot of neat features, and also has a jit, and it looks like it is being actively maintained and has decent comments.


On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Billy Earney <billy.earney@gmail.com> writes:
> I did a google search, and found the following:
> http://www.arglist.com/regex/

Hmm ... might be worth looking at those two pre-existing attempts at
making a standalone library from Henry's code, just to see what choices
they made.

> Which states that Tcl uses the same library from Henry.  Maybe someone
> involved with that project would help explain the library?

Um ... did you see the head message in this thread?

                       regards, tom lane

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