Question re regexexp_split_to_array and last oc - Mailing list pgsql-sql

Hi

I have the following in a trigger (update/insert)

 NEW.filearr := (regexp_split_to_array(NEW.tagfile,'(?:/|\.)'))[2:];

This works except when there is a period in the filename

So I did this instead

arrfile=(regexp_split_to_array(NEW.tagfile,'/'))[2:];
NEW.filearr :=arrfile[1:cardinality(arrfile)-1]||regexp_matches(arrfile[cardinality(arrfile)],'(.*)\.(.*)');

Which works perfectly, except performance is 50% slower on a dataset of around 20k

Is there a better solution