Re: Dollar quoted strings

Hi John,

The type code 2003 indicates an SQL99 column type of ARRAY, which is
not currently supported for rendering/editing. Here is the feature
request for SQuirreL SQL Client to track this feature:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2972937&group_id=28383&atid=393417

Rob

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:38 PM, John Gage <jsmgage(at)numericable(dot)fr> wrote:
> Thanks very much for this.  I am using 8.4.2.
>
> This query works as you describe in pgAdmin.
>
> I had tried it in the SquirrelSQL client, which is where it produced the
>
> <Unknown(2,003)>
>
> result.
>
> Obviously, this is a SquirrelSQL problem at least in part.
>
> What does <Unknown(2,003)> mean?
>
> Thanks again for directing me to the doc's on dollar quoting.
>
> John
>
>
> On Mar 24, 2010, at 8:13 PM, Josh Kupershmidt wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:38 PM, John Gage <jsmgage(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>>
>>> In going through the arcana of string functions, I have come across the
>>> following series of selects that contain, for me, a mysterious "$re$".
>>>
>>> -- return all matches from regexp
>>> SELECT regexp_matches('foobarbequebaz', $re$(bar)(beque)$re$);
>>
>> The $re$ is just an arbitrary identifier for a dollar-quoted string
>> constant. See:
>>
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-syntax-lexical.html
>>
>> Maybe you're on an old version which doesn't support dollar-quoted
>> strings?
>>
>> On 8.3 for the above query, I get:
>>
>> SELECT regexp_matches('foobarbequebaz', $re$(bar)(beque)$re$);
>> regexp_matches
>> ----------------
>> {bar,beque}
>> (1 row)
>>
>> Josh
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