On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Stuart Woolford wrote:
> unfortunately '^whatever.*' is what I'm trying to locate (ie: all words
> starting with whatever, but with nay trailing text), the problem seems to be in
> the termination of the index scan, not in the actual regex match (which actually
> seems very good, speed wise..) otherwise I could just use ='whatever', which
> runs very very fast.
Isn't "all words that start with whatever but without trailing text" the
same as = 'whatever'? From a regex point of view '^whatever' and
'^whatever.*' are exactly equivalent, but I can see where one could fail
to optimize properly. But that could even be a problem in the regex
library, which is not any of the PostgreSQL developers' domain and which
is used in other products as well.
-Peter
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