On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Jim Drummey wrote:
> Hello-
>
> The 7.2 version distributed with RedHat 8.0 seems not
> to work for substrings and POSIX regular expressions.
>
> I think this should work....
>
> pds=> select substring( str1 from ',' ) from address;
> ERROR: pg_atoi: error in ",": can't parse ","
>
> Am I missing something?
That functionality was added in 7.3 I believe. You may wish
to upgrade.