Re: Extending Regular Expression bounds limit of 255.

No. Strangely enough they don't in enforce this limit.

Brent DeSpain
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Andrej <andrej(dot)groups(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On 28 May 2010 07:33, Brent DeSpain <bd(dot)postgres(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > In the docs
> >
> 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?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Andrej
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