David Fetter wrote:
> I'm looking to the SQL WITH clause as a way to get better regex
> support in PostgreSQL. I've been chatting a little bit about this,
> and here's an idea for a behavior. Implementation details TBD.
>
> WITH res = match (x.foo, '([0-9]+)x([0-9]+)')
> SELECT *
> FROM x
> WHERE y = res[2]
> OR y = res[3];
Two questions:
1. What does this have to do with the SQL WITH clause?
2. How does the generalize to arbitrary user-defined operators?
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