Summary:
Regexes are considered potentially problematic for use in
registering RocksDB extensions, so we are removing
ObjectLibrary::Register() and the Regex public API it depended on (now
unused).
In reference to https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/issues/9389
Why?
* The power of Regexes can make it hard to reason about which extension
will match what. (The replacement API isn't perfect, but we are at least
"holding the line" on patterns we have seen in practice.)
* It is easy to make regexes that don't quite mean what you think they
mean, such as forgetting that the `.` in `foo.bar` can match any character
or that matching is nondeterministic, as in `a🅱️42` matching `.*:[0-9]+`.
* Some regexes and implementations can have disastrously bad
performance. This might not be much practical concern for ObjectLibray
here, but we don't want to encourage potentially dangerous further use
in production code. (Testing code is fine. See TestRegex.)
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/9439
Test Plan: CI
Reviewed By: mrambacher
Differential Revision: D33792342
Pulled By: pdillinger
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