| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Aaron Bono" <postgresql(at)aranya(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Postgres SQL language list" <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Regular Expression in SQL |
| Date: | 2006-07-16 02:22:32 |
| Message-ID: | 25326.1153016552@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Aaron Bono" <postgresql(at)aranya(dot)com> writes:
> I thought by using the FOR '#' I could specify exactly what part of the
> expression I would get but it still grabs the first (...) of the pattern.
Hmm ... I think that this is a bug in similar_escape(): it ought to
transform parentheses in a SIMILAR pattern into non-capturing parentheses.
Until this is fixed, your best bet is to use the POSIX-regexp form of
substring(). You can't sneak non-capturing parens through
similar_escape, because it'll try to escape the ? ...
regards, tom lane
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