Re: Another regexp performance improvement: skip useless paren-captures

> On Aug 8, 2021, at 1:25 PM, Tom Lane  wrote:
> 
> Ugh.  The regex engine is finding the match correctly, but it's failing to
> tell the caller where it is :-(.  I was a little too cute in optimizing
> the regmatch_t result-vector copying in pg_regexec, and forgot to ensure
> that the overall match position would be reported.
> 
> Thanks for the testing!

Sure!  Thanks for improving the regular expression engine!

I have applied your latest patch and do not see any problems with it.  All my tests pass with no asserts and with no differences in results vs. master.  This is a test suite of nearly 1.5 million separate regular expressions.

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