Tatsuo Ishii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Before 7.4, to be handled by regex routines, UTF-8 are converted to > ISO 10646. There was a limitaion in regex routines in that they cannot > handle multibyte characters > 2bytes. In another word only 16bit UCS-2 > are supported. That's why ISO 10646 > 0x10000 is rejected.
> I'm not sure if the regex routines include in 7.4 or later has this > restrictions or not. If not, probably we could remove the check (with > losing data compatibilty). It looks to me like the regex routines now use pg_wchar, so I don't think we need the restriction any longer. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend