Re: Finding broken regex'es

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Erik Jones <erik(at)myemma(dot)com>
Cc: weigelt(at)metux(dot)de, pgsql-sql <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Finding broken regex'es
Date: 2007-10-03 06:03:04
Message-ID: 3156.1191391384@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Erik Jones <erik(at)myemma(dot)com> writes:
> Btw, am I crazy or do I remember someone
> mentioning that support for Perl regexes possibly being added to
> Postgres in the future.

You can already get exact-Perl-behavior regexes by means of a plperl
wrapper function. I can't really see any plausible argument for us
supporting both behaviors natively --- IMHO the three regex flavors
supported by Spencer's library are already two too many.

regards, tom lane

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