X-Original-To: pgsql-sql-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F170D1B4FA for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 16:41:28 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 86035-01 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:41:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B127D1B392 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 16:41:22 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i6PJfLdu015469; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 15:41:22 -0400 (EDT) To: Markus Bertheau Cc: Jean-Luc Lachance , Keith Gallant , pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: regex engine In-reply-to: <1090782455.9204.8.camel@teetnang> References: <1090763779.9204.1.camel@teetnang> <4103C656.4070109@sympatico.ca> <1090772515.9204.3.camel@teetnang> <14659.1090776861@sss.pgh.pa.us> <1090782455.9204.8.camel@teetnang> Comments: In-reply-to Markus Bertheau message dated "Sun, 25 Jul 2004 21:07:35 +0200" Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 15:41:21 -0400 Message-ID: <15468.1090784481@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=0.0 required=5.0 tests= X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200407/220 X-Sequence-Number: 18472 Markus Bertheau writes: > pg's regex engine does have one > shortcoming though: it doesn't know UTF-8. Sure it does. We borrowed it from Tcl, remember? The "character class" stuff is not locale-aware at the moment, which is something that ought to get fixed eventually, but claiming it doesn't handle UTF8 at all is simply wrong. regards, tom lane