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Improve MySQL compatibility of REGEXP and REGEXP_LIKE() - #624
This PR makes the REGEXP and RLIKE operators and REGEXP_LIKE() behave much more like MySQL. It brings the failures in the REGEXP_LIKE() test suite from #622 down from 1,253 to 766 (MySQL cases: 302 → 262, ICU cases: 951 → 504, on PHP 8.5).
It's the first PRs that split #368 into smaller chunks.
The main changes:
Unicode text is matched by character, so . matches é, and case-insensitive matching works beyond ASCII.
Binary data that isn't valid UTF-8 is matched byte by byte, like in MySQL.
Errors are raised for invalid patterns, instead of PHP warnings or silently wrong results.
Line breaks, escaped slashes, big integers, and operator precedence work like in MySQL.
Long subjects no longer fail on PHP's small JIT stack.
Why
Apps use REGEXP with Unicode text, binary data, and big numbers, and the old matching often got these wrong. The functions in the next PR also need this engine.
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A CHECK constraint or DEFAULT expression with REGEXP BINARY, created before this change, can reject valid rows until its table is rebuilt, for example by adding a column. This should be rare, because MySQL rejects REGEXP BINARY on text.
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Bug Fixes
Improved compatibility for REGEXP, RLIKE, and REGEXP_LIKE queries, including pattern flags, escaped characters, numeric values, and Unicode or binary data.
Corrected handling of NULL values and invalid patterns or match types.
Improved behavior for complex patterns that reach matching limits.
Corrected operator precedence and matching behavior for patterns containing null bytes, newlines, or large numeric values.
Improved consistency when matching patterns with multiple flags or unusual character encodings.
The change updates SQL translation and SQLite implementations for REGEXP and REGEXP_LIKE. It adds shared pattern validation, compilation, caching, matching, and error handling. Tests cover matching behavior and revise known-failure lists for MySQL and ICU cases.
Changes: REGEXP translation and matching
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Translate and register REGEXP calls packages/mysql-on-sqlite/src/sqlite/class-wp-mysql-on-sqlite.php, packages/mysql-on-sqlite/src/sqlite/class-wp-sqlite-pdo-user-defined-functions.php
REGEXP predicates now translate to parenthesized REGEXP() calls with text-cast operands and an optional binary flag. REGEXP_LIKE arguments are text-cast, and SQLite registers regexp and regexp_like for two or three arguments.
Validate, compile, and match patterns packages/mysql-on-sqlite/src/sqlite/class-wp-sqlite-pdo-user-defined-functions.php
The REGEXP functions validate arguments and match-type flags, select text or byte matching, compile and cache patterns, and map matching failures to exceptions.
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participant SQLTranslator as translate_regexp_predicate
participant SQLiteUDF as regexp or regexp_like
participant RegexHelpers as pattern compilation and matching
SQLTranslator->>SQLiteUDF: Emits REGEXP call with text operands and binary flag
SQLiteUDF->>RegexHelpers: Compiles or reuses pattern and matches subject
RegexHelpers->>SQLiteUDF: Returns result or raises a regex error
This change makes REGEXP and REGEXP_LIKE behave much more like MySQL. The remaining gaps are narrow: floating-point operands, \Q inside regex comments, i combined with binary matching, and old REGEXP BINARY constraints that need a table rebuild after upgrade, which the PR description documents. These are bounded and mostly documented, so the PR is mergeable with owner awareness.
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- Line 5183: Update the REGEXP expression rewrite and REGEXP_LIKE cast to apply
large-integer narrowing only to INTEGER operands, preserving MySQL-compatible
coercion for REAL subjects and patterns. Determine operand types without
evaluating either operand twice, and add regression cases covering REAL values
in both positions.
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@packages/mysql-on-sqlite/src/sqlite/class-wp-sqlite-pdo-user-defined-functions.php:
- Line 1167: Update the quote-mode detection around `$quoted` so `\Q` inside
`(?#...)` or an extended-mode `#` comment does not activate quoting; only update
quote state outside regex comments, while preserving existing handling
elsewhere. Add an escaping test for `(?#\Q)^a/.b$` that confirms subject `a/xb`
still matches.
Review comments at @packages/mysql-on-sqlite/tests/WP_MySQL_On_SQLite_Tests.php:
- Line 369: Update the PHP_VERSION_ID guard around the two long-subject stress
tests so they also skip when PCRE JIT is disabled or unavailable. Establish JIT
availability using the project’s supported runtime checks, and preserve the
existing PHP version condition so these tests never run through the recursive
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- Line 609: Add an upgrade migration in WP_SQLite_Configurator::run_migrations()
to update legacy CHECK expressions using REGEXP BINARY so their NUL-prefixed
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Minor · Keep binary matching case-sensitive when… · class-wp-sqlite-pdo-user-defined-functions.php:633
packages/mysql-on-sqlite/src/sqlite/class-wp-sqlite-pdo-user-defined-functions.php:633 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Keep binary matching case-sensitive when match_type contains i.
For a BLOB containing X'61FF62', REGEXP_LIKE(b, 'A.B', 'i') can return 1. MySQL documents binary matching as case-sensitive even with i; MySQL 8.0.22 and later reject binary regex arguments.
Distinguish binary inputs from other byte-mode inputs before changing case handling. Update the BLOB test expectation for the chosen MySQL compatibility behavior.
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Review comment at @packages/mysql-on-sqlite/src/sqlite/class-wp-sqlite-pdo-user-defined-functions.php at line 633:
Update the REGEXP_LIKE handling around regexp_compile so binary inputs remain case-sensitive even when match_type contains i, while preserving case-insensitive behavior for non-binary byte-mode inputs. Distinguish binary inputs from other byte-mode inputs using the existing input classification, and update the BLOB test expectation to match the chosen MySQL compatibility behavior.
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- Line 633: Update the REGEXP_LIKE handling around regexp_compile so binary
inputs remain case-sensitive even when match_type contains i, while preserving
case-insensitive behavior for non-binary byte-mode inputs. Distinguish binary
inputs from other byte-mode inputs using the existing input classification, and
update the BLOB test expectation to match the chosen MySQL compatibility
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REGEXP_LIKE() and the REGEXP operator wrapped the pattern in slashes
and passed it to preg_match() as it was. Compile it in regexp_compile()
instead:
- Text is matched as UTF-8, so "." matches "é", and case-insensitive
matching works beyond ASCII.
- Any Unicode line break ends a line, like in MySQL. The "u" flag limits
that to "\n".
- Escaped slashes, as in '\/', work.
- Quoted text without "\E" can end with a backslash, as in '\Qa\'.
- An empty pattern is an error, like in MySQL, instead of matching
everything.
- Up to 64 compiled patterns are cached.
regexp_fail() reports invalid patterns and PCRE limits as errors.
Before, an invalid pattern caused a PHP warning, and a pattern over
PCRE's limits silently didn't match.
Data that is not valid UTF-8 is matched byte by byte and
case-sensitively, like MySQL binary strings, though the match type of
REGEXP_LIKE() can still ignore case. In such data, only CR and LF end a
line, as the byte 0x85 is a part of characters like "ą".
Register REGEXP_LIKE() with its exact argument counts, so a wrong count
is an error, like in MySQL.
The operator translation marked REGEXP BINARY by prepending a NUL byte
to the pattern. Any pattern value that started with a NUL byte was then
silently matched as REGEXP BINARY: the byte was dropped and matching
became case-sensitive.
Translate REGEXP on the "predicate" node, which has both operands, and
call the REGEXP function directly with an explicit flag instead. Escape
NUL bytes in patterns, which PHP rejects before 8.2.
Wrapping the call in parentheses also keeps the MySQL precedence, where
REGEXP binds tighter than comparison operators. SQLite read
1 = 'a' REGEXP 'a' as (1 = 'a') REGEXP 'a'.
CHECK constraints and DEFAULT expressions with REGEXP BINARY in existing
databases keep the old NUL-byte marker until their table is rebuilt.
PDO narrows integer arguments of user-defined functions to 32 bits
before PHP receives them. On a BIGINT column holding 15551234567,
n REGEXP '^1' and REGEXP_LIKE(n, '^1') returned 0.
PHP can't recover the value, so cast the subject and the pattern to
text in the translator.
SQLite now converts float operands to text instead of PHP. A whole number
in a DOUBLE or FLOAT column reads as "20.0", where MySQL reads "20".
Point to the known failures of the REGEXP test suites for the syntax
that ICU and PCRE read differently, instead of listing it.
List the differences that the suites don't show: case folding, CRLF
line breaks, and named groups in PCRE, and binary data and the text of
numbers in SQLite.
PHP 7.3 and 7.4 read unknown escapes as literal text. '\u0041'
silently matched "u0041", and '\p{Foo}' matched nothing instead of
failing. PHP 7.2 did the same for escapes like '\y'. PHP 8 reports
them as errors.
The "X" modifier makes them errors on PHP 7, too, and does nothing on
PHP 8. MySQL reads escapes like '\y' as literals, so PHP 7 was right
for those. Now PHP 7 fails the same REGEXP_LIKE() cases as PHP 8.
PHP's JIT stack is small, so a repeated group like '(a|b)*' failed
with "exceeded internal limits" on a subject of about 6,000
characters. MySQL matches such subjects, and trunk silently treated
them as not matching.
On PHP 7.3+, retry such a match with "(*NO_JIT)", which raises the
limit to about 50,000 characters. PHP 7.2 has no "(*NO_JIT)", and
matching without JIT can crash it, so it keeps the JIT limit of about
2,000 characters. Document the remaining limit.
1134-1134: Minor · Performance & Scalability · Quick win
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Bound the empty-subject validation match.
testRegexpLimitOnlyOnEmptySubject() in packages/mysql-on-sqlite/tests/WP_MySQL_On_SQLite_Tests.php, Line 393–411, supplies x|(?:a?|b?){20}(?!$). This pattern exhausts the backtrack limit on '' but matches 'x' immediately.
Each cache miss now performs the expensive match first. With more than 64 row-specific variants, such as appended (?#id) comments, eviction repeats that work for every row. PHP’s default backtrack budget is 1,000,000. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
Use a small, separate validation budget. Preserve the existing rule that limit exhaustion does not invalidate the pattern.
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Summary
This PR makes the
REGEXPandRLIKEoperators andREGEXP_LIKE()behave much more like MySQL. It brings the failures in theREGEXP_LIKE()test suite from #622 down from 1,253 to 766 (MySQL cases: 302 → 262, ICU cases: 951 → 504, on PHP 8.5).It's the first PRs that split #368 into smaller chunks.
The main changes:
.matchesé, and case-insensitive matching works beyond ASCII.Why
Apps use
REGEXPwith Unicode text, binary data, and big numbers, and the old matching often got these wrong. The functions in the next PR also need this engine.Upgrade note
A
CHECKconstraint orDEFAULTexpression withREGEXP BINARY, created before this change, can reject valid rows until its table is rebuilt, for example by adding a column. This should be rare, because MySQL rejectsREGEXP BINARYon text.Summary by CodeRabbit
REGEXP,RLIKE, andREGEXP_LIKEqueries, including pattern flags, escaped characters, numeric values, and Unicode or binary data.NULLvalues and invalid patterns or match types.