Re: [SQL] SIMILAR TO

2010-10-16 Thread Rommel the iCeMAn
] SIMILAR TO Rommel the iCeMAn writes: > I use the following code to detect alphanumeric strings: > IF _my_variable SIMILAR TO '^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$' THEN > // do stuff here > END IF; > In pg8.4 this worked perfectly. I upgraded to pg9.0 and it no longer > work

Re: [SQL] SIMILAR TO

2010-10-16 Thread Tom Lane
Rommel the iCeMAn writes: > I use the following code to detect alphanumeric strings: > IF _my_variable SIMILAR TO '^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$' THEN >         // do stuff here > END IF; > In pg8.4 this worked perfectly. I upgraded to pg9.0 and it no longer > works. From the release notes it appears that the

[SQL] SIMILAR TO

2010-10-16 Thread Rommel the iCeMAn
Hi guys, I use the following code to detect alphanumeric strings: IF _my_variable SIMILAR TO '^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$' THEN         // do stuff here END IF; In pg8.4 this worked perfectly. I upgraded to pg9.0 and it no longer works. From the release notes it appears that the behavior of SIMILAR TO has ch