Re: Expected behaviour of \d in regexp with exponent numbers ?

Le 1/09/2014 15:42, Albe Laurenz a écrit :
> Arnaud Lesauvage wrote:
>> I just came accross this trying to upgrade my server from 8.4.8 to 9.3.4 :
>> SELECT substring('²' FROM E'\\d');
>> 8.4 : NULL
>> 9.3 : "²"
>> Am I correct to expect NULL in this case ?
>
> I get a different result on Linux:

OK, first of all the servers are running on Windows 2003 R2. They are on
the same computer, the only difference is they use a different port.

> test=> SHOW server_encoding;

UTF8 on both servers

> test=> SHOW client_encoding;

UNICODE on both servers

> test=> SHOW lc_collate;

I have a small difference here.
On 8.4 I have "French, Belgium"
On 9.3 I have "French_France.1252"
Quite confusing... I left the installer chose the collation for me,
French_France sounded close enough !


> Maybe it is a collation problem.
> Which operating system and collation are you using on each system?
> What do you get for "SELECT '²'::bytea" on each system?

"\302\262" on each system.

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Arnaud