Re: POSIX-style regular expressions

I tried to build retest but there was a lot of massages like

...... undefined referenc to ..

and building regex tester failed with messages

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [retest] Error 1

"Josh Jore" <josh(at)greentechnologist(dot)org> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Goran Buzic wrote:
>
> > id1 char(6) NOT NULL CHECK(id1 ~* '^([0-9]{1,2}\.){2}$'),
>
> > ERROR: ExecAppend: rejected due to CHECK constraint table_name1_id1
> >
> > I tested preceding regular expression with Perl and JavaScript and it
worked
> > fine. Can I use regular expressions with CHECK parametar, and if so, how
can
> > I make it work.
>
> You should probably test it against PostgreSQL's regex engine. What you
> may not know is that they all have different syntaxes, rules and quirks.
> What works in one may or may not work in another.
>
> So check out src/backend/regex and build retest (I think that's what it
> was called). It's a command line regex tester (obviously against
> PostgreSQL's implementation).
>
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