Re: [SQL] Extending Regular Expression bounds limit of 255.

2010-05-30 Thread Jasen Betts
On 2010-05-29, Tim Landscheidt wrote: > Jasen Betts wrote: > >>> 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? > >> perhaps you can

Re: [SQL] Extending Regular Expression bounds limit of 255.

2010-05-29 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Jasen Betts wrote: >> 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? > perhaps you can do something in pl-perl? > posix regular expre

Re: [SQL] Extending Regular Expression bounds limit of 255.

2010-05-29 Thread Jasen Betts
On 2010-05-27, Brent DeSpain wrote: > --00504502c13812967604879b4ba3 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > 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

Re: [SQL] Extending Regular Expression bounds limit of 255.

2010-05-28 Thread Brent DeSpain
Yep. That is what I was looking at this morning. It is probably too late in this release of our project to make this change. Thanks for the help. Brent DeSpain Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:14 AM, alvherre wrote: > Excerpts from Brent DeSpain's message o

Re: [SQL] Extending Regular Expression bounds limit of 255.

2010-05-28 Thread alvherre
Excerpts from Brent DeSpain's message of jue may 27 18:55:55 -0400 2010: > 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? See regcomp.c; y

Re: [SQL] Extending Regular Expression bounds limit of 255.

2010-05-27 Thread Brent DeSpain
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, Bren

Re: [SQL] Extending Regular Expression bounds limit of 255.

2010-05-27 Thread Brent DeSpain
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 wrote: > On 28 May 2010 07:33, Brent DeSpain wrote: > > In the docs > > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/functions-matching.h

Re: [SQL] Extending Regular Expression bounds limit of 255.

2010-05-27 Thread Andrej
On 28 May 2010 07:33, Brent DeSpain 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

[SQL] Extending Regular Expression bounds limit of 255.

2010-05-27 Thread Brent DeSpain
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