Re: regex engine

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Markus Bertheau <twanger(at)bluetwanger(dot)de>
Cc: Jean-Luc Lachance <jllachan(at)sympatico(dot)ca>, Keith Gallant <keith(at)justhosting(dot)ca>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: regex engine
Date: 2004-07-25 19:41:21
Message-ID: 15468.1090784481@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Markus Bertheau <twanger(at)bluetwanger(dot)de> writes:
> pg's regex engine does have one
> shortcoming though: it doesn't know UTF-8.

Sure it does. We borrowed it from Tcl, remember?

The "character class" stuff is not locale-aware at the moment,
which is something that ought to get fixed eventually, but claiming
it doesn't handle UTF8 at all is simply wrong.

regards, tom lane

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