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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Arley Lewis <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Docs List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: doc bug: SELECT SUBSTRING example is missing keyword FROM
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:46:46 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

Arley Lewis <[email protected]> writes:
> Two "FROM"s are missing from this section. Where it now says:
> -------------
> SELECT SUBSTRING('XY1234Z', 'Y*([0-9]{1,3})');
> Result: 123
> SELECT SUBSTRING('XY1234Z', 'Y*?([0-9]{1,3})');
> Result: 1

There is nothing wrong with these examples.

regression=# SELECT SUBSTRING('XY1234Z', 'Y*([0-9]{1,3})');
 substring 
-----------
 123
(1 row)

regression=# SELECT SUBSTRING('XY1234Z', 'Y*?([0-9]{1,3})');
 substring 
-----------
 1
(1 row)


			regards, tom lane

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