Re: Extending Regular Expression bounds limit of 255.

No.  Strangely enough they don't in enforce this limit.

Brent DeSpain
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Andrej <andrej.groups@gmail.com> wrote:

On 28 May 2010 07:33, Brent DeSpain <bd.postgres@gmail.com> wrote:
> In the docs
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/functions-matching.html#POSIX-EMBEDDED-OPTIONS-TABLE
> it says that Regular Expression bounds {m,n} that m and n can be 0-255.  Is
> there a way to extend the upper limit.  We are trying to be consistent
> between Regular Expressionimplementation an the other implementations do not
> have this limit.

Interesting.  The POSIX standard for REs dictates this limit; which
implementations
you're using don't adhere to it?


Cheers,
Andrej




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