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Identifying the precise match locations for parenthesized subexpressions is a fairly expensive task given the way our regexp engine works, both at regexp compile time (where we must create an optimized NFA for each parenthesized subexpression) and at runtime (where determining exact match locations requires laborious search). Up to now we've made little attempt to optimize this situation. This patch identifies cases where we know at compile time that we won't need to know subexpression match locations, and teaches the regexp compiler to not bother creating per-subexpression regexps for parenthesis pairs that are not referenced by backrefs elsewhere in the regexp. (To preserve semantics, we obviously still have to pin down the match locations of backref references.) Users could have obtained the same results before this by being careful to write "non capturing" parentheses wherever possible, but few people bother with that. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2219936.1628115334@sss.pgh.pa.us
The PostgreSQL contrib tree
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This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in
features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly
because they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be
part of the main source tree. This does not preclude their
usefulness.
User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML
documentation.
When building from the source distribution, these modules are not
built automatically, unless you build the "world" target. You can
also build and install them all by running "make all" and "make
install" in this directory; or to build and install just one selected
module, do the same in that module's subdirectory.
Some directories supply new user-defined functions, operators, or
types. To make use of one of these modules, after you have installed
the code you need to register the new SQL objects in the database
system by executing a CREATE EXTENSION command. In a fresh database,
you can simply do
CREATE EXTENSION module_name;
See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.