| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Vik Fearing <vik(dot)fearing(at)dalibo(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Athanasios Kostopoulos <athanasios(dot)kostopoulos(at)classmarkets(dot)com>, Luca Ferrari <fluca1978(at)infinito(dot)it>, "pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Problem with backing up a large database |
| Date: | 2013-08-20 13:51:19 |
| Message-ID: | 3260.1377006679@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Vik Fearing <vik(dot)fearing(at)dalibo(dot)com> writes:
> On 08/20/2013 01:47 PM, Athanasios Kostopoulos wrote:
>> Thank you for your reply Luca. Regarding the regular expression, I
>> need to exclude all tables starting with z thus ^z. I am not sure
>> about the star, should I do something along the lines of
>> ^z[Aa-Zz|0-9]* to catch all cases?
> Just do ^z and leave the star out of it.
I think it would be '[^z]*'. The basic notation is not regex, it's
like Unix shells' filename wildcards; so you *do* need a star.
But we do recognize regex-style character classes, else this
requirement couldn't be met at all.
regards, tom lane
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