X-Original-To: pgsql-sql-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7EE4D1BB9A for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 17:19:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 20256-09 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 13:19:02 -0400 (AST) Received: from news.hub.org (news.hub.org [200.46.204.72]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77613D1B502 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 13:19:00 -0400 (AST) Received: from news.hub.org (news.hub.org [200.46.204.72]) by news.hub.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hAEHJ0Nu056612 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 17:19:00 GMT (envelope-from news@news.hub.org) Received: (from news@localhost) by news.hub.org (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id hAEH2nfW052247 for pgsql-sql@postgresql.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 17:02:50 GMT From: drumeng@yahoo.com (Jim Drummey) X-Newsgroups: comp.databases.postgresql.sql Subject: Substrings by Regular Expression Date: 14 Nov 2003 09:02:48 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 15 Message-ID: <463bd40b.0311140902.27de95a5@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200311/243 X-Sequence-Number: 16058 Hello- The 7.2 version distributed with RedHat 8.0 seems not to work for substrings and POSIX regular expressions. I think this should work.... pds=> select substring( str1 from ',' ) from address; ERROR: pg_atoi: error in ",": can't parse "," Am I missing something? TIA J. Drummey drumeng@yahoo.com