Atsushi Ogawa said: > > How about changing the function name of each usage? > > regexp_replace: replace first > regexp_replace_all: replace all > regexp_ic_replace: replace first and case insensitive > regexp_ic_replace_all: replace all and case insensitive >
That's just horrible. The number of function names will double with each supported flag (e.g. I'd like to see extended regexes supported). surely somthing like foo_replace (source text, pattern text, replacement text, flags text) returns text would fit the bill. OK, it reflects my Perl prejudices, but that looks more natural to me. You could overload it so that the flags default to none (which would be case sensitive, replace the first instance only, among other things). cheers andrew ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org