From: Armin Resch <reschab@gmail.com>
To: Craig James <cjames@emolecules.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: regexp_replace grief
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:22:13 -0500
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Thx for clarification, Craig. Your Perl snippet comes in handy, too.
-ar
On Apr 10, 2013, at 8:08 PM, Craig James <cjames@emolecules.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Armin Resch <reschab@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Not sure this is the right list to vent about this but here you go:
>>
>> I) select regexp_replace('BEFORE.AFTER','(.*)\..*','\1','g') "Substring"
>> II) select regexp_replace('BEFORE.AFTER','(.*)\\..*','\\1','g') "Substring"
>>
>> Executing (II) against pg 8.4.4 or 9.0.4 yields 'BEFORE', but in order for 9.1.7 to yield the same one has to execute (I) .. bummer
>
> This has nothing to do with regexp's. It's a change in how '\' is interpreted in any quoted string. The change came with Postgres 9.x and is documented in the release notes. It brings Postgres into compliance with the SQL standard.
>
> In Perl, I do something like this:
>
> my $pg_bs_char;
> if ($dbh->get_info($GetInfoType{SQL_DBMS_VER}) gt "09.00.00") {
> $pg_bs_char = "\\"; # a single '\' for PG 9.1 and higher
> } else {
> $pg_bs_char = "\\\\"; # a double '\\' for PG up to 9.0
> }
>
> You can also revert to the old 8.x interpretation; see
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/runtime-config-compatible.html
>
> Craig
>
>>
>> -ar
>
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