I don't know about the date formatting (although I
know that can always be done easily on the application
end, which is usually more convenient), but about the
regex:
They should work pretty much like perl (there may be a
few differences) except that you aren't retrieving
matches in PG or replacing, it is just a boolean test
to see if a pattern is found.
here is some brief documentation on perl regexes, to
get you started at least:
http://www.perl.com/pub/doc/manual/html/pod/perlre.html#Regular_Expressions
Hope it helps. You might also try documentation for
other programming languages that use regexes (PHP, Sed
& Awk, etc).
-Jeff Davis
--- Frank R Callaghan <f.callaghan@ieee.org> wrote:
> Excuse my ignorance but is there anyway to
> format a returned date aka 'mm/dd/yy' in a query
> like
> sybase dateformat(date, 'mm/dd/yy');
> also is the a good document explaining the use
> of regex in postgresql.
>
> TIA,
> Frank.
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