Mail-Followup-To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
connect(): No such file or directory
From: Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de>
Subject: Re: regexp_replace and search/replace values stored in table
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:04:23 +0000
Organization: <URI:http://www.tim-landscheidt.de/>
Lines: 20
Message-ID: <m3fx2hqc6g.fsf@passepartout.tim-landscheidt.de>
References: <201004271343.48070.leif@solumslekt.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org
X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e177123006.adsl.alicedsl.de
Mail-Copies-To: never
User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:gpVTaT2YiRJOBOoEX2hvszD70bk=
X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.011 tagged_above=-10 required=5
	tests=BAYES_40=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Archive-Number: 201004/97
X-Sequence-Number: 34024

Leif Biberg Kristensen <leif@solumslekt.org> wrote:

> [...]
> So far, so good. But when I try to do the actual expansion, I'm stumped.

> pgslekt=> select regexp_replace((select source_text from sources where
> source_id=23091), (select quote_literal(short_link) from short_links where
> link_type = 'sk'), (select quote_literal(long_link) from short_links where
> link_type = 'sk'), 'g');
>                                          regexp_replace
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  [sk=25658|67|side 66a]. Vabakken under Klyve vestre i Solum 07.07.1784:
> [p=6947|Isach Jonsen].
> (1 row)

> What am I missing?

For starters, omit the call to quote_literal ().

Tim