Tom Lane skrev:
> You could imagine trying to do
> % a byte at a time (and indeed that's what I'd been thinking it did)
> but that gets you out of sync which breaks the _ case.
It is only when you have a pattern like '%_' when this is a problem and
we could detect this and do byte by byte when it's not. Now we check (*p
== '\\') || (*p == '_') in each iteration when we scan over characters
for '%', and we could do it once and have different loops for the two cases.
Other than this part that I think can be optimized I don't see anything
wrong with the idea behind the patch. To make the '%' case fast might be
an important optimization for a lot of use cases. It's not uncommon that
'%' matches a bigger part of the string than the rest of the pattern.
It's easy to make a misstake when one is used to think about the simple
fixed size characters like ascii. Strange that this simple topic can be
so difficult to think about... :-)
/Dennis