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From: hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@depesz.com>
To: Shaozhong SHI <shishaozhong@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql <pgsql-sql@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: How best to work around the issue - regex string cannot contain brackets
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2022 13:55:58 +0100
Message-ID: <20220204125558.GA31459@depesz.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+i5JwYi246WtbtgQQy5o7vhsj8DLqunAA4FW1m68NpLUp0gLg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CA+i5JwYi246WtbtgQQy5o7vhsj8DLqunAA4FW1m68NpLUp0gLg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 04:53:18PM +0000, Shaozhong SHI wrote:
> One would consider the following would work, but it did not because the
> brackets.
> select regexp_matches('Department for Transport (Parking)', 'Department for
> Transport (Parking)', 'g')
> Can anyone enlighten me?

Perhaps you don't want regexp matching, but simple equality or
substring match?

depesz





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