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Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 08:59:04 +1200
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Subject: Re: Extending Regular Expression bounds limit of 255.
From: Andrej <andrej.groups@gmail.com>
To: Brent DeSpain <bd.postgres@gmail.com>
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On 28 May 2010 07:33, Brent DeSpain <bd.postgres@gmail.com> wrote:
> In the docs
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/functions-matching.html#PO=
SIX-EMBEDDED-OPTIONS-TABLE
> it says that Regular Expression bounds {m,n} that m and n can be 0-255.=
=A0 Is
> there a way to extend the upper limit.=A0 We are trying to be consistent
> between Regular Expressionimplementation an the other implementations do =
not
> have this limit.
Interesting.  The POSIX standard for REs dictates this limit; which
implementations
you're using don't adhere to it?


Cheers,
Andrej


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