From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Erik Jones <erik@myemma.com>
Cc: weigelt@metux.de, pgsql-sql <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Finding broken regex'es
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:03:04 -0400
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Erik Jones <erik@myemma.com> writes:
> Btw, am I crazy or do I remember someone
> mentioning that support for Perl regexes possibly being added to
> Postgres in the future.
You can already get exact-Perl-behavior regexes by means of a plperl
wrapper function. I can't really see any plausible argument for us
supporting both behaviors natively --- IMHO the three regex flavors
supported by Spencer's library are already two too many.
regards, tom lane
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