Re: [HACKERS] regular expressions from hell

> I've noticed there are no less then 10^10 regex implementations.
> Is there a standard?  Does ANSI have a regexp standard, or is there
> a regex standard in the ANSI SQL spec?  What do we use?

Good question. I think one of the standard unix regex's should be ok. At least
everyone knows how to work it, and they are quite small.

> Personally, I'm a perl guy, so everytime I have to bend my brain to
> some other regex syntax, I get a headache.  As part of my perl PL
> package, perl regexps will be included as a set of operators.
>
> Is there interest in the release of perl-style regexp operators for
> postgres before the PL is completed?  Note that this requires the
> entire perl library to be loaded when the operator is used (possibly
> expensive).  But, if you have a shared perl library, this only has to
> happen once.

Hmmm, I really like the perl regex's, especially the extended syntax, but
I don't want to load a whole perl lib to get this.

-dg

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