From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Constantin Teodorescu <teo@flex.ro>
Cc: PostgreSQL Interfaces <pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Broken select on regular expression !!!
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 14:25:26 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <199907071825.OAA05675@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3742C185.F57328C0@flex.ro>
Fixed in 6.5 final.
> Hi all,
>
> I think I have found a bug in regexp based selections.
> Watch this :
>
> create table regdemo (fld1 varchar(32));
> CREATE
> insert into regdemo values('410');
> INSERT 726409 1
> insert into regdemo values('7410');
> INSERT 726410 1
> insert into regdemo values('source');
> INSERT 726411 1
> insert into regdemo values('destination');
> INSERT 726412 1
> select * from regdemo where fld1 ~* '^sou|^des';
> fld1
> -----------
> source
> destination
> (2 rows)
>
> select * from regdemo where fld1 ~* '41|^des';
> fld1
> -----------
> 410
> 7410
> destination
> (3 rows)
>
> select * from regdemo where fld1 ~* '^41|^des';
> fld1
> ----
> (0 rows)
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> !?!?!?!
> I thought it should return '410' and 'destination' rows. But it returns
> nothing!
> The first select example with ^ in both variants ( ^sou|^des ) works !!!
> The last one ( ^41|^des ) don't !
>
> Am I missing something?
> I am getting the same result also on 6.4.2 and 6.5 beta 1 versions!
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Constantin Teodorescu
> FLEX Consulting Braila, ROMANIA
>
>
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