Erik Jones <erik(at)myemma(dot)com> writes:
> Btw, am I crazy or do I remember someone
> mentioning that support for Perl regexes possibly being added to
> Postgres in the future.
You can already get exact-Perl-behavior regexes by means of a plperl
wrapper function. I can't really see any plausible argument for us
supporting both behaviors natively --- IMHO the three regex flavors
supported by Spencer's library are already two too many.
regards, tom lane