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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
# Generating dummy probes If Postgres isn't configured with dtrace enabled, we need to generate dummy probes for the entries in probes.d, that do nothing. This is accomplished in Unix via the sed script `Gen_dummy_probes.sed`. We used to use this in MSVC builds using the perl utility `psed`, which mimicked sed. However, that utility disappeared from Windows perl distributions and so we converted the sed script to a perl script to be used in MSVC builds. We still keep the sed script as the authoritative source for generating these dummy probes because except on Windows perl is not a hard requirement when building from a tarball. So, if you need to change the way dummy probes are generated, first change the sed script, and when it's working generate the perl script. This can be accomplished by using the perl utility s2p. s2p is no longer part of the perl core, so it might not be on your system, but it is available on CPAN and also in many package systems. e.g. on Fedora it can be installed using `cpan App::s2p` or `dnf install perl-App-s2p`. The Makefile contains a recipe for regenerating Gen_dummy_probes.pl, so all you need to do is once you have s2p installed is `make Gen_dummy_probes.pl` Note that in a VPATH build this will generate the file in the vpath tree, not the source tree.