Re: Emulating flexible regex replace

This yields a successful match since $1 in the /target pattern/ is replaced
> by "123" from the first captured group in *source* and the resulting
> string,
> "123 target text", matches the /target pattern/.

> I would like to execute a query which for a given /source pattern/ and
> /target pattern/ returns all rows from the *SEGMENT* table where *source*
> matches the /source pattern/ and *target* matches the /target pattern/
> after
> it has its references replaced with the actual captured groups.

> I believe this is not possible since *regexp_replace* expects a string as
> its /replacement/ argument which is not enough in this case.

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