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    Fix enforcement of restrictions inside regexp lookaround constraints. · a43b4ab1
    Tom Lane authored
    Lookahead and lookbehind constraints aren't allowed to contain backrefs,
    and parentheses within them are always considered non-capturing.  Or so
    says the manual.  But the regexp parser forgot about these rules once
    inside a parenthesized subexpression, so that constructs like (\w)(?=(\1))
    were accepted (but then not correctly executed --- a case like this acted
    like (\w)(?=\w), without any enforcement that the two \w's match the same
    text).  And in (?=((foo))) the innermost parentheses would be counted as
    capturing parentheses, though no text would ever be captured for them.
    
    To fix, properly pass down the "type" argument to the recursive invocation
    of parse().
    
    Back-patch to all supported branches; it was agreed that silent
    misexecution of such patterns is worse than throwing an error, even though
    new errors in minor releases are generally not desirable.
    a43b4ab1
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