Re: how to test string against regular expression contained in postgresql database field?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: joe(at)tsolucio(dot)com (Joe Bordes)
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: how to test string against regular expression contained in postgresql database field?
Date: 2004-03-26 19:33:27
Message-ID: 26388.1080329607@sss.pgh.pa.us
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joe(at)tsolucio(dot)com (Joe Bordes) writes:
> I have a table which contains a field with regular expressions. I want
> to test a given string against this field to obtain the resulting
> records but I am doing something wrong and cannot find out what.

> select os_name from table where 'windows9x' ~ os_regexp;
> ERROR: invalid regular expression: empty expression or subexpression.

Looks to me like there's at least one row in the table whose os_regexp
is wrong. I'm not quite sure *why* it's wrong ... I tried a few
examples to see if I could duplicate that message, and I couldn't find
one. But you want to look to the regexps themselves, the query is fine.

regards, tom lane

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