-- -- Regular expression tests -- -- Don't want to have to double backslashes in regexes set standard_conforming_strings = on; -- Test simple quantified backrefs select 'bbbbb' ~ '^([bc])\1*$' as t; t --- t (1 row) select 'ccc' ~ '^([bc])\1*$' as t; t --- t (1 row) select 'xxx' ~ '^([bc])\1*$' as f; f --- f (1 row) select 'bbc' ~ '^([bc])\1*$' as f; f --- f (1 row) select 'b' ~ '^([bc])\1*$' as t; t --- t (1 row) -- Test quantified backref within a larger expression select 'abc abc abc' ~ '^(\w+)( \1)+$' as t; t --- t (1 row) select 'abc abd abc' ~ '^(\w+)( \1)+$' as f; f --- f (1 row) select 'abc abc abd' ~ '^(\w+)( \1)+$' as f; f --- f (1 row) select 'abc abc abc' ~ '^(.+)( \1)+$' as t; t --- t (1 row) select 'abc abd abc' ~ '^(.+)( \1)+$' as f; f --- f (1 row) select 'abc abc abd' ~ '^(.+)( \1)+$' as f; f --- f (1 row) -- Test some cases that crashed in 9.2beta1 due to pmatch[] array overrun select substring('asd TO foo' from ' TO (([a-z0-9._]+|"([^"]+|"")+")+)'); substring ----------- foo (1 row) select substring('a' from '((a))+'); substring ----------- a (1 row) select substring('a' from '((a)+)'); substring ----------- a (1 row) -- Test conversion of regex patterns to indexable conditions explain (costs off) select * from pg_proc where proname ~ 'abc'; QUERY PLAN ----------------------------------- Seq Scan on pg_proc Filter: (proname ~ 'abc'::text) (2 rows) explain (costs off) select * from pg_proc where proname ~ '^abc'; QUERY PLAN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Index Scan using pg_proc_proname_args_nsp_index on pg_proc Index Cond: ((proname >= 'abc'::name) AND (proname < 'abd'::name)) Filter: (proname ~ '^abc'::text) (3 rows) explain (costs off) select * from pg_proc where proname ~ '^abc$'; QUERY PLAN ------------------------------------------------------------ Index Scan using pg_proc_proname_args_nsp_index on pg_proc Index Cond: (proname = 'abc'::name) Filter: (proname ~ '^abc$'::text) (3 rows) explain (costs off) select * from pg_proc where proname ~ '^abcd*e'; QUERY PLAN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Index Scan using pg_proc_proname_args_nsp_index on pg_proc Index Cond: ((proname >= 'abc'::name) AND (proname < 'abd'::name)) Filter: (proname ~ '^abcd*e'::text) (3 rows) explain (costs off) select * from pg_proc where proname ~ '^abc+d'; QUERY PLAN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Index Scan using pg_proc_proname_args_nsp_index on pg_proc Index Cond: ((proname >= 'abc'::name) AND (proname < 'abd'::name)) Filter: (proname ~ '^abc+d'::text) (3 rows) explain (costs off) select * from pg_proc where proname ~ '^(abc)(def)'; QUERY PLAN ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Index Scan using pg_proc_proname_args_nsp_index on pg_proc Index Cond: ((proname >= 'abcdef'::name) AND (proname < 'abcdeg'::name)) Filter: (proname ~ '^(abc)(def)'::text) (3 rows) explain (costs off) select * from pg_proc where proname ~ '^(abc)$'; QUERY PLAN ------------------------------------------------------------ Index Scan using pg_proc_proname_args_nsp_index on pg_proc Index Cond: (proname = 'abc'::name) Filter: (proname ~ '^(abc)$'::text) (3 rows) explain (costs off) select * from pg_proc where proname ~ '^(abc)?d'; QUERY PLAN ---------------------------------------- Seq Scan on pg_proc Filter: (proname ~ '^(abc)?d'::text) (2 rows) -- Test for infinite loop in pullback() (CVE-2007-4772) select 'a' ~ '($|^)*'; ?column? ---------- t (1 row) -- Test for infinite loop in fixempties() (Tcl bugs 3604074, 3606683) select 'a' ~ '((((((a)*)*)*)*)*)*'; ?column? ---------- t (1 row) select 'a' ~ '((((((a+|)+|)+|)+|)+|)+|)'; ?column? ---------- t (1 row) -- Test backref in combination with non-greedy quantifier -- https://core.tcl.tk/tcl/tktview/6585b21ca8fa6f3678d442b97241fdd43dba2ec0 select 'Programmer' ~ '(\w).*?\1' as t; t --- t (1 row) select regexp_matches('Programmer', '(\w)(.*?\1)', 'g'); regexp_matches ---------------- {r,ogr} {m,m} (2 rows) -- Test for proper matching of non-greedy iteration (bug #11478) select regexp_matches('foo/bar/baz', '^([^/]+?)(?:/([^/]+?))(?:/([^/]+?))?$', ''); regexp_matches ---------------- {foo,bar,baz} (1 row) -- Test for infinite loop in cfindloop with zero-length possible match -- but no actual match (can only happen in the presence of backrefs) select 'a' ~ '$()|^\1'; ?column? ---------- f (1 row) select 'a' ~ '.. ()|\1'; ?column? ---------- f (1 row) select 'a' ~ '()*\1'; ?column? ---------- t (1 row) select 'a' ~ '()+\1'; ?column? ---------- t (1 row)