Re: Future of our regular expression code

Thanks Tom. I looked at the code in the libraries I referred to earlier,
and it looks like the code in the regex directory is exactly the same as
Walter Waldo's version, which has at least one comment from the middle of
last decade (~ 2003). Has people thought about migrating to the pcre
library? It seems to have a lot of neat features, and also has a jit, and
it looks like it is being actively maintained and has decent comments.

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Billy Earney <billy(dot)earney(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > I did a google search, and found the following:
> > http://www.arglist.com/regex/
>
> Hmm ... might be worth looking at those two pre-existing attempts at
> making a standalone library from Henry's code, just to see what choices
> they made.
>
> > Which states that Tcl uses the same library from Henry. Maybe someone
> > involved with that project would help explain the library?
>
> Um ... did you see the head message in this thread?
>
> regards, tom lane
>