Re: Extending Regular Expression bounds limit of 255.

It looks like most of our tools are using the Perl version of regular
expressions with an upper limit of a bound being 32766. Is there any way to
change this in PG? Or can I change from POSIX to Perl?

Brent DeSpain
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Brent DeSpain <bd(dot)postgres(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:

> No. Strangely enough they don't in enforce this limit.
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> Brent DeSpain
> Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
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> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Andrej <andrej(dot)groups(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>> On 28 May 2010 07:33, Brent DeSpain <bd(dot)postgres(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> > In the docs
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>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/functions-matching.html#POSIX-EMBEDDED-OPTIONS-TABLE
>> > it says that Regular Expression bounds {m,n} that m and n can be 0-255.
>> Is
>> > there a way to extend the upper limit. We are trying to be consistent
>> > between Regular Expressionimplementation an the other implementations do
>> not
>> > have this limit.
>> Interesting. The POSIX standard for REs dictates this limit; which
>> implementations
>> you're using don't adhere to it?
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>> Cheers,
>> Andrej
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