Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.187]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B5FE9F96DE for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 03:03:15 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 56144-06 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 03:03:07 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B954F9F9630 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 03:03:08 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l93634AX003157; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 02:03:04 -0400 (EDT) To: Erik Jones cc: weigelt@metux.de, pgsql-sql Subject: Re: Finding broken regex'es In-reply-to: <9F9943E3-5114-457A-ABE7-D41CBCAFFE93@myemma.com> References: <20071002202313.GB18506@nibiru.local> <51E80F93-35D0-41A0-B9C0-A256A806C971@myemma.com> <1595.1191383289@sss.pgh.pa.us> <9F9943E3-5114-457A-ABE7-D41CBCAFFE93@myemma.com> Comments: In-reply-to Erik Jones message dated "Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:43:16 -0500" Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:03:04 -0400 Message-ID: <3156.1191391384@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200710/9 X-Sequence-Number: 29381 Erik Jones 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