Hi folks,
I'm looking for some way to find broken regex'es in some column
to kick them off. For now I'm regularily fetching all regexes
from an PHP script, try an preg_match() and so find the broken
ones to later remove them.
Is there any way to do this directly within the db ?
thx
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On Oct 2, 2007, at 3:23 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm looking for some way to find broken regex'es in some column
to kick them off. For now I'm regularily fetching all regexes
from an PHP script, try an preg_match() and so find the broken
ones to later remove them.
Is there any way
Erik Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> IIRC, if they're PERL compatible which it would seem from the php
> function you're using, no. Postgres supports POSIX regexes but not
> (right now anyway) PERL regexes.
Actually what we support are Tcl (Henry Spencer) regexes, which are
about as powerful
On Oct 2, 2007, at 10:48 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
Erik Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
IIRC, if they're PERL compatible which it would seem from the php
function you're using, no. Postgres supports POSIX regexes but not
(right now anyway) PERL regexes.
Actually what we support are Tcl (Henry S
Erik Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Btw, am I crazy or do I remember someone
> mentioning that support for Perl regexes possibly being added to
> Postgres in the future.
You can already get exact-Perl-behavior regexes by means of a plperl
wrapper function. I can't really see any plausibl
