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* Update copyright for 2025Bruce Momjian2025-01-01
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* Update copyright for 2024Bruce Momjian2024-01-03
| | | | | | | | Reported-by: Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZZKTDPxBBMt3C0J9@paquier.xyz Backpatch-through: 12
* Use MemoryContext API for regex memory management.Thomas Munro2023-04-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, regex_t objects' memory was managed with malloc() and free() directly. Switch to palloc()-based memory management instead. Advantages: * memory used by cached regexes is now visible with MemoryContext observability tools * cleanup can be done automatically in certain failure modes (something that later commits will take advantage of) * cleanup can be done in bulk On the downside, there may be more fragmentation (wasted memory) due to per-regex MemoryContext objects. This is a problem shared with other cached objects in PostgreSQL and can probably be improved with later tuning. Thanks to Noah Misch for suggesting this general approach, which unblocks later work on interrupts. Suggested-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGK3PGKwcKqzoosamn36YW-fsuTdOPPF1i_rtEO%3DnEYKSg%40mail.gmail.com
* Update copyright for 2023Bruce Momjian2023-01-02
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* Update copyright for 2022Bruce Momjian2022-01-07
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* Recognize "match-all" NFAs within the regex engine.Tom Lane2021-02-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This builds on the previous "rainbow" patch to detect NFAs that will match any string, though possibly with constraints on the string length. This definition is chosen to match constructs such as ".*", ".+", and ".{1,100}". Recognizing such an NFA after the optimization pass is fairly cheap, since we basically just have to verify that all arcs are RAINBOW arcs and count the number of steps to the end state. (Well, there's a bit of complication with pseudo-color arcs for string boundary conditions, but not much.) Once we have these markings, the regex executor functions longest(), shortest(), and matchuntil() don't have to expend per-character work to determine whether a given substring satisfies such an NFA; they just need to check its length against the bounds. Since some matching problems require O(N) invocations of these functions, we've reduced the runtime for an N-character string from O(N^2) to O(N). Of course, this is no help for non-matchall sub-patterns, but those usually have constraints that allow us to avoid needing O(N) substring checks in the first place. It's precisely the unconstrained "match-all" cases that cause the most headaches. This is part of a patch series that in total reduces the regex engine's runtime by about a factor of four on a large corpus of real-world regexes. Patch by me, reviewed by Joel Jacobson Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1340281.1613018383@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Invent "rainbow" arcs within the regex engine.Tom Lane2021-02-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some regular expression constructs, most notably the "." match-anything metacharacter, produce a sheaf of parallel NFA arcs covering all possible colors (that is, character equivalence classes). We can make a noticeable improvement in the space and time needed to process large regexes by replacing such cases with a single arc bearing the special color code "RAINBOW". This requires only minor additional complication in places such as pull() and push(). Callers of pg_reg_getoutarcs() must now be prepared for the possibility of seeing a RAINBOW arc. For the one known user, contrib/pg_trgm, that's a net benefit since it cuts the number of arcs to be dealt with, and the handling isn't any different than for other colors that contain too many characters to be dealt with individually. This is part of a patch series that in total reduces the regex engine's runtime by about a factor of four on a large corpus of real-world regexes. Patch by me, reviewed by Joel Jacobson Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1340281.1613018383@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Update copyright for 2021Bruce Momjian2021-01-02
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* Update copyrights for 2020Bruce Momjian2020-01-01
| | | | Backpatch-through: update all files in master, backpatch legal files through 9.4
* Phase 2 pgindent run for v12.Tom Lane2019-05-22
| | | | | | | | | Switch to 2.1 version of pg_bsd_indent. This formats multiline function declarations "correctly", that is with additional lines of parameter declarations indented to match where the first line's left parenthesis is. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0P3FeTXRcU5B2W3jv3PgRVZ-kGUXLGfd42FFhUROO3ug@mail.gmail.com
* Update copyright for 2019Bruce Momjian2019-01-02
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* Update copyright for 2018Bruce Momjian2018-01-02
| | | | Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.3
* Initial pgindent run with pg_bsd_indent version 2.0.Tom Lane2017-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The new indent version includes numerous fixes thanks to Piotr Stefaniak. The main changes visible in this commit are: * Nicer formatting of function-pointer declarations. * No longer unexpectedly removes spaces in expressions using casts, sizeof, or offsetof. * No longer wants to add a space in "struct structname *varname", as well as some similar cases for const- or volatile-qualified pointers. * Declarations using PG_USED_FOR_ASSERTS_ONLY are formatted more nicely. * Fixes bug where comments following declarations were sometimes placed with no space separating them from the code. * Fixes some odd decisions for comments following case labels. * Fixes some cases where comments following code were indented to less than the expected column 33. On the less good side, it now tends to put more whitespace around typedef names that are not listed in typedefs.list. This might encourage us to put more effort into typedef name collection; it's not really a bug in indent itself. There are more changes coming after this round, having to do with comment indentation and alignment of lines appearing within parentheses. I wanted to limit the size of the diffs to something that could be reviewed without one's eyes completely glazing over, so it seemed better to split up the changes as much as practical. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Update copyright via script for 2017Bruce Momjian2017-01-03
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* Make locale-dependent regex character classes work for large char codes.Tom Lane2016-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, we failed to recognize Unicode characters above U+7FF as being members of locale-dependent character classes such as [[:alpha:]]. (Actually, the same problem occurs for large pg_wchar values in any multibyte encoding, but UTF8 is the only case people have actually complained about.) It's impractical to get Spencer's original code to handle character classes or ranges containing many thousands of characters, because it insists on considering each member character individually at regex compile time, whether or not the character will ever be of interest at run time. To fix, choose a cutoff point MAX_SIMPLE_CHR below which we process characters individually as before, and deal with entire ranges or classes as single entities above that. We can actually make things cheaper than before for chars below the cutoff, because the color map can now be a simple linear array for those chars, rather than the multilevel tree structure Spencer designed. It's more expensive than before for chars above the cutoff, because we must do a binary search in a list of high chars and char ranges used in the regex pattern, plus call iswalpha() and friends for each locale-dependent character class used in the pattern. However, multibyte encodings are normally designed to give smaller codes to popular characters, so that we can expect that the slow path will be taken relatively infrequently. In any case, the speed penalty appears minor except when we have to apply iswalpha() etc. to high character codes at runtime --- and the previous coding gave wrong answers for those cases, so whether it was faster is moot. Tom Lane, reviewed by Heikki Linnakangas Discussion: <15563.1471913698@sss.pgh.pa.us>
* Update copyright for 2016Bruce Momjian2016-01-02
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* Implement lookbehind constraints in our regular-expression engine.Tom Lane2015-10-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A lookbehind constraint is like a lookahead constraint in that it consumes no text; but it checks for existence (or nonexistence) of a match *ending* at the current point in the string, rather than one *starting* at the current point. This is a long-requested feature since it exists in many other regex libraries, but Henry Spencer had never got around to implementing it in the code we use. Just making it work is actually pretty trivial; but naive copying of the logic for lookahead constraints leads to code that often spends O(N^2) time to scan an N-character string, because we have to run the match engine from string start to the current probe point each time the constraint is checked. In typical use-cases a lookbehind constraint will be written at the start of the regex and hence will need to be checked at every character --- so O(N^2) work overall. To fix that, I introduced a third copy of the core DFA matching loop, paralleling the existing longest() and shortest() loops. This version, matchuntil(), can suspend and resume matching given a couple of pointers' worth of storage space. So we need only run it across the string once, stopping at each interesting probe point and then resuming to advance to the next one. I also put in an optimization that simplifies one-character lookahead and lookbehind constraints, such as "(?=x)" or "(?<!\w)", into AHEAD and BEHIND constraints, which already existed in the engine. This avoids the overhead of the LACON machinery entirely for these rather common cases. The net result is that lookbehind constraints run a factor of three or so slower than Perl's for multi-character constraints, but faster than Perl's for one-character constraints ... and they work fine for variable-length constraints, which Perl gives up on entirely. So that's not bad from a competitive perspective, and there's room for further optimization if anyone cares. (In reality, raw scan rate across a large input string is probably not that big a deal for Postgres usage anyway; so I'm happy if it's linear.)
* Fix incorrect handling of lookahead constraints in pg_regprefix().Tom Lane2015-10-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | pg_regprefix was doing nothing with lookahead constraints, which would be fine if it were the right kind of nothing, but it isn't: we have to terminate our search for a fixed prefix, not just pretend the LACON arc isn't there. Otherwise, if the current state has both a LACON outarc and a single plain-color outarc, we'd falsely conclude that the color represents an addition to the fixed prefix, and generate an extracted index condition that restricts the indexscan too much. (See added regression test case.) Terminating the search is conservative: we could traverse the LACON arc (thus assuming that the constraint can be satisfied at runtime) and then examine the outarcs of the linked-to state. But that would be a lot more work than it seems worth, because writing a LACON followed by a single plain character is a pretty silly thing to do. This makes a difference only in rather contrived cases, but it's a bug, so back-patch to all supported branches.
* Update copyright for 2015Bruce Momjian2015-01-06
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* pgindent run for 9.4Bruce Momjian2014-05-06
| | | | | This includes removing tabs after periods in C comments, which was applied to back branches, so this change should not effect backpatching.
* Update copyright for 2014Bruce Momjian2014-01-07
| | | | | Update all files in head, and files COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml in all back branches.
* pgindent run for release 9.3Bruce Momjian2013-05-29
| | | | | This is the first run of the Perl-based pgindent script. Also update pgindent instructions.
* Update copyrights for 2013Bruce Momjian2013-01-01
| | | | | Fully update git head, and update back branches in ./COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml files.
* Re-implement extraction of fixed prefixes from regular expressions.Tom Lane2012-07-10
To generate btree-indexable conditions from regex WHERE conditions (such as WHERE indexed_col ~ '^foo'), we need to be able to identify any fixed prefix that a regex might have; that is, find any string that must be a prefix of all strings satisfying the regex. We used to do that with entirely ad-hoc code that looked at the source text of the regex. It didn't know very much about regex syntax, which mostly meant that it would fail to identify some optimizable cases; but Viktor Rosenfeld reported that it would produce actively wrong answers for quantified parenthesized subexpressions, such as '^(foo)?bar'. Rather than trying to extend the ad-hoc code to cover this, let's get rid of it altogether in favor of identifying prefixes by examining the compiled form of a regex. To do this, I've added a new entry point "pg_regprefix" to the regex library; hopefully it is defined in a sufficiently general fashion that it can remain in the library when/if that code gets split out as a standalone project. Since this bug has been there for a very long time, this fix needs to get back-patched. However it depends on some other recent commits (particularly the addition of wchar-to-database-encoding conversion), so I'll commit this separately and then go to work on back-porting the necessary fixes.