Re: regular expressions stranges - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: regular expressions stranges
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Msg-id 18535.1169564436@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to regular expressions stranges  (Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>)
Responses Re: regular expressions stranges  (Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>)
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Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> writes:
> As I can see, that is because of using isalpha (and other is*), tolower & 
> toupper instead of isw* and tow* functions. Is any reason to use them? If not, I 
> can modify regc_locale.c similarly to tsearch2 locale part.

The regex code is working with pg_wchar strings, which aren't
necessarily the same representation that the OS' wide-char functions
expect.  If we could guarantee compatibility then the above plan
would make sense ...
        regards, tom lane


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