Re: POSIX regex performance bug in 7.3 Vs. 7.2

On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 17:26, Tom Lane wrote:
> Proof of concept:
> [...]

Very cool work, Tom.

> In the first case there are only four distinct patterns used, so we're
> running with cached precompiled regexes.  In the other cases a new regex
> compilation must occur at each row.

Speaking of which, is there (or should there be) some mechanism for
increasing the size of the compiled pattern cache? Perhaps a GUC var?

Cheers,

Neil
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