> Rodger Donaldson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > SELECT url
> > FROM sites
> > WHERE url ~ url || '\\s+'
>
> > While this concatenation works with the LIKE directive (ie LIKE url || '%'),
> > postgresql barfs on it in a regexp with the error:
>
> > ERROR: Unable to identify an operator '||'
> The regexp package we currently use implements POSIX 1003.2 regexps
> (see src/backend/regex/re_format.7). I believe there is an item on the
> TODO list about upgrading the regexp parser to something more modern
> ... feel free to hop on that project if it's bugging you ...
I would like to rec
Rodger Donaldson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> SELECT url
> FROM sites
> WHERE url ~ url || '\\s+'
> While this concatenation works with the LIKE directive (ie LIKE url || '%'),
> postgresql barfs on it in a regexp with the error:
> ERROR: Unable to identify an operator '||' for types 'bool' a
I have a large group of records which were entered with trailing garbage, in
the form of superfluous \n.
The main problem this has caused, other than the obvious one, is that the
record in question is being used as a primary key, so some duplicates have
slipped through. I assumed a simple state
