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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Dominique Devienne <[email protected]>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Latest patches break one of our unit-test, related to RLS
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2025 10:07:06 -0400
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Dominique Devienne <[email protected]> writes:
>> This DOES look like a bug, no? I've done regexes for a long time,
>> and these two forms should be equivalent IMHO. --DD

Yeah, I agree it's busted.  You can use EXPLAIN VERBOSE to see the
translated-to-POSIX pattern, and it's wrong:

regression=# explain verbose with t(v) as (values ('foo:bar'), ('foo/bar'), ('foo0bar'))                                         
select v from t where v similar to 'foo[\d\w]_%';
                          QUERY PLAN                          
--------------------------------------------------------------
 Values Scan on "*VALUES*"  (cost=0.00..0.05 rows=1 width=32)
   Output: "*VALUES*".column1
   Filter: ("*VALUES*".column1 ~ '^(?:foo[\d\w]_%)$'::text)
(3 rows)

The _ and % are not getting converted to their POSIX equivalents
("." and ".*").  Your other example still does that correctly:

regression=# explain verbose with t(v) as (values ('foo:bar'), ('foo/bar'), ('foo0bar'))
select v from t where v similar to 'foo[0-9a-zA-Z]_%';
                            QUERY PLAN                            
------------------------------------------------------------------
 Values Scan on "*VALUES*"  (cost=0.00..0.05 rows=1 width=32)
   Output: "*VALUES*".column1
   Filter: ("*VALUES*".column1 ~ '^(?:foo[0-9a-zA-Z]..*)$'::text)
(3 rows)

So e3ffc3e91 was at least one brick shy of a load.

			regards, tom lane






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