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Subject: Re: Extending Regular Expression bounds limit of 255.
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On 2010-05-27, Brent DeSpain <bd.postgres@gmail.com> wrote:
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> It looks like most of our tools are using the Perl version of regular
> expressions with an upper limit of a bound being 32766.  Is there any way to
> change this in PG?  Or can I change from POSIX to Perl?

perhaps you can do something in pl-perl?

posix regular expressions are different to perl regular expressions in
several ways.