Re: regular expression substittion function? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: regular expression substittion function?
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Msg-id 2493.982252751@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to regular expression substittion function?  (Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>)
Responses Re: regular expression substittion function?  (Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>)
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Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to> writes:
> Are there any plans to provide a regular expression substitution function,
> similar to translate but allowing more complex substitutions?

Not in Postgres itself.  Either pltcl or plperl offers you far better
text-mashing facilities than we could provide as SQL functions, so I
don't really see the point in partially duplicating their functionality.

            regards, tom lane

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