Re: Domain check constraint not honored?

Thank you! (Slapping head)
Your regexp seems to do the trick.

On 10/29/2015 01:49 PM, Rob Sargent wrote:
> On 10/29/2015 11:41 AM, Eric Schwarzenbach wrote:
>> I have created a custom type as a domain based on text, which adds a
>> check constraint using a regexp to limit it to containing digits and
>> '.'. However I am finding I can add values with other characters to a
>> column of this type. Is this to be expected for some reason?
>>
>> Or alternately, did I define the constraint wrong somehow? It is
>> defined thus:
>>
>> CREATE DOMAIN hierpath AS text
>> CHECK(
>> VALUE ~ '[0-9.]+'
>> );
>>
>> Checking the docs I'm pretty sure the '.' doesn't need escaping but I
>> also tried a test leaving it out ( '[0-9]+') and the result is the
>> same. It lets me store letters in a column defined to be of this type.
>>
>> The version() function tells me
>> "PostgreSQL 9.4.5 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc
>> (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) 4.8.2, 64-bit"
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eric
>>
>>
> I think you regexp is too weak. So long as the value has a digit or
> period, it's good.
> '^[0-9.]+$' might work