Jasen Betts <jasen(at)xnet(dot)co(dot)nz> wrote:
>> 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?
> perhaps you can do something in pl-perl?
> posix regular expressions are different to perl regular expressions in
> several ways.
Another last resort possibility would of course be to "pre-
compile" the regular expressions from "A{2000}" to
"A{255}A{255}A{255}A{255}A{255}A{255}A{255}A{215}" (with the
headaches of "A{1000,2000}" left as an exercise to the read-
er :-)).
Tim