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-rw-r--r--src/backend/regex/regcomp.c22
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/regex/regcomp.c b/src/backend/regex/regcomp.c
index ae3a7b6a38c..d9840171a33 100644
--- a/src/backend/regex/regcomp.c
+++ b/src/backend/regex/regcomp.c
@@ -1089,11 +1089,23 @@ parseqatom(struct vars *v,
/* annoying special case: {0} or {0,0} cancels everything */
if (m == 0 && n == 0)
{
- if (atom != NULL)
- freesubre(v, atom);
- if (atomtype == '(')
- v->subs[subno] = NULL;
- delsub(v->nfa, lp, rp);
+ /*
+ * If we had capturing subexpression(s) within the atom, we don't want
+ * to destroy them, because it's legal (if useless) to back-ref them
+ * later. Hence, just unlink the atom from lp/rp and then ignore it.
+ */
+ if (atom != NULL && (atom->flags & CAP))
+ {
+ delsub(v->nfa, lp, atom->begin);
+ delsub(v->nfa, atom->end, rp);
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ /* Otherwise, we can clean up any subre infrastructure we made */
+ if (atom != NULL)
+ freesubre(v, atom);
+ delsub(v->nfa, lp, rp);
+ }
EMPTYARC(lp, rp);
return top;
}