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?
Brent DeSpain Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Brent DeSpain <bd.postg...@gmail.com>wrote: > No. Strangely enough they don't in enforce this limit. > > > Brent DeSpain > Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. > > > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Andrej <andrej.gro...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 28 May 2010 07:33, Brent DeSpain <bd.postg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > In the docs >> > >> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/functions-matching.html#POSIX-EMBEDDED-OPTIONS-TABLE >> > it says that Regular Expression bounds {m,n} that m and n can be 0-255. >> Is >> > there a way to extend the upper limit. We are trying to be consistent >> > between Regular Expressionimplementation an the other implementations do >> not >> > have this limit. >> Interesting. The POSIX standard for REs dictates this limit; which >> implementations >> you're using don't adhere to it? >> >> >> Cheers, >> Andrej >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Please don't top post, and don't use HTML e-Mail :} Make your quotes >> concise. >> >> http://www.american.edu/econ/notes/htmlmail.htm >> > >
