On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 11:59, Tom Lane wrote: > I'm about to go off and look at whether we can absorb the Tcl regex > package, which is Spencer's new baby. That will not be a solution for > 7.3.anything, but it could be an answer for 7.4.
Sounds like we had about the same idea at about the same time -- I emailed Henry Spencer inquiring about the new RE engine last night. I came across a post this post that indicates he was planning to package the new RE engine separately: http://infosoc.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/php/1999-February/000019.html but I wasn't able to find a release of it anywhere -- I'll let the list know if/when he gets back to me. Another option is to consider a different regular expression engine. At least according to the benchmarks here, http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/john_maddock/proposals/exregex.htm Spencer's implementation is outperformed by some other RE engines, notably PCRE (www.pcre.org). But switching to another engine might impose backward-compatibility problems, in terms of the details of the RE syntax. Cheers, Neil -- Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> || PGP Key ID: DB3C29FC ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
