Re: [SQL] Re: [GENERAL] Determining if "in a text set"

Hi,

On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Herouth Maoz wrote:

|o| OK, I looked into it more deeply. The regular expressions in postgres seem
|o| to follow the rules in the 'regex(5)' manpage.
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|o| At least it does on my solaris. I'm not sure whether this is or is not
|o| OS-dependent.

Looking at the PostgreSQL source, I think they're using some UC Berkeley
regex package (check out $(SRC)/src/backend/regex). There are two MAN
pages there if people are interested. re_format.7 specifies POSIX 1003.2
Regex specs ... Again, assuming that PostgreSQL uses this lib.

|o| Hope you followed me so far.

thanks, that was pretty straightforward. kinda teacher-like. ;^)


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