Re: Extending Regular Expression bounds limit of 255.

From: Andrej <andrej(dot)groups(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Brent DeSpain <bd(dot)postgres(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Extending Regular Expression bounds limit of 255.
Date: 2010-05-27 20:59:04
Message-ID: AANLkTimcCsHFFlknF_KBXV5mPTqLrW_LhST0GN4ONOYC@mail.gmail.com
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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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