Re: trouble with regular expression - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

From Pushker Chaubey
Subject Re: trouble with regular expression
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Msg-id 48478B38.5020103@vertex.co.in
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In response to Re: trouble with regular expression  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom,
Thanks a lot! It worked.

Tom Lane wrote:
Pushker Chaubey <pchaubey@vertex.co.in> writes: 
(Please note that I just replaced similar to with ~*)   
They're not the same ... SIMILAR TO is SQL-spec which is almost entirely
unlike POSIX.

You can get there using the undocumented similar_escape function:
"a SIMILAR TO b" is actually implemented as "a ~ similar_escape(b,null)",
so "a ~* similar_escape(b,null)" should do what you want.
		regards, tom lane
 


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