From: Robert Manning <robert.m.manning@gmail.com>
To: John Gage <jsmgage@numericable.fr>
Cc: Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Cc: squirrel-sql-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Dollar quoted strings
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:20:51 -0400
Message-ID: <3f0fe3d21003242020u3bfbb07kcfe7d0fcccff3755@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27234E40-2601-43F2-8321-5D3ED37A21F6@numericable.fr>
References: <20100324140832.GA5864@apartia.fr>
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Hi John,
The type code 2003 indicates an SQL99 column type of ARRAY, which is
not currently supported for rendering/editing. Here is the feature
request for SQuirreL SQL Client to track this feature:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2972937&group_id=28383&atid=393417
Rob
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:38 PM, John Gage <jsmgage@numericable.fr> wrote:
> Thanks very much for this. I am using 8.4.2.
>
> This query works as you describe in pgAdmin.
>
> I had tried it in the SquirrelSQL client, which is where it produced the
>
> <Unknown(2,003)>
>
> result.
>
> Obviously, this is a SquirrelSQL problem at least in part.
>
> What does <Unknown(2,003)> mean?
>
> Thanks again for directing me to the doc's on dollar quoting.
>
> John
>
>
> On Mar 24, 2010, at 8:13 PM, Josh Kupershmidt wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:38 PM, John Gage <jsmgage@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> In going through the arcana of string functions, I have come across the
>>> following series of selects that contain, for me, a mysterious "$re$".
>>>
>>> -- return all matches from regexp
>>> SELECT regexp_matches('foobarbequebaz', $re$(bar)(beque)$re$);
>>
>> The $re$ is just an arbitrary identifier for a dollar-quoted string
>> constant. See:
>>
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-syntax-lexical.html
>>
>> Maybe you're on an old version which doesn't support dollar-quoted
>> strings?
>>
>> On 8.3 for the above query, I get:
>>
>> SELECT regexp_matches('foobarbequebaz', $re$(bar)(beque)$re$);
>> regexp_matches
>> ----------------
>> {bar,beque}
>> (1 row)
>>
>> Josh
>
>
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