Re: Regex bug

On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 01:32:32PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> > Here's a symptom as reported by John Hansen aka applejack:
>
> > SELECT 'r'||'\000\125'||'hello' ~ '^.hello' AS "OMG";
>
> This is not a regex bug: it has to do with the fact that we don't
> support embedded nulls in text values.  This may enlighten you
> a bit as to what's happening:
>
> regression=# select length ('\000\125');
>  length
> --------
>       0
> (1 row)

Ah, right.  John was testing his unicode patch, so there must be some
magick underneath that distinguishes characters from bytes :)

Cheers,
D (feeling a little sheepish. again.)
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