From: Harald Fuchs <hf0614x@protecting.net>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: POSIX Regular Expression question
Date: 05 Sep 2005 17:40:37 +0200
Message-ID: <87k6hv7cay.fsf@srv.protecting.net> (raw)
References: <431C4EB2.80401@mediaroot.de>
<200509051619.29210.peter_e@gmx.net>
In article <200509051619.29210.peter_e@gmx.net>,
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Presumably,
> colname ~ '^[A-Za-z]*$'
> If you want to be independent of locale issues, then you'd have to enumerate
> all the letters instead of using a range specification.
How so? I thought character ranges are more an encoding than a locale
issue. I dunno the details of the supported encodings, but is there
any encoding where 'a-z' includes more or less than 26 letters?
Fortunately we don't support EBCDIC ;-)
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