On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 10:00 -0700, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> What Andreas is saying is that the patterns in the table have too
> many backslashes. The original query was
>
> test=> select '+385911234567' ~ '^\\+38591\\d{7}$';
> ?column?
> ----------
> t
> (1 row)
>
> but if you select just the pattern you get
>
> test=> select '^\\+38591\\d{7}$';
> ?column?
> ----------------
> ^\+38591\d{7}$
> (1 row)
I was a bit silly here. Dunno why I tought I need to escape the
backslashes when entering regexp as data in table. Thank you for
pointing that out.
Mike