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From: Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de>
Subject: Re: Extending Regular Expression bounds limit of 255.
Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 18:56:49 +0000
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Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> wrote:

>> 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.

Another last resort possibility would of course be to "pre-
compile" the regular expressions from "A{2000}" to
"A{255}A{255}A{255}A{255}A{255}A{255}A{255}A{215}" (with the
headaches of "A{1000,2000}" left as an exercise to the read-
er :-)).

Tim