On Oct 2, 2007, at 3:23 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
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> Hi folks,
>
>
> I'm looking for some way to find broken regex'es in some column
> to kick them off. For now I'm regularily fetching all regexes
> from an PHP script, try an preg_match() and so find the broken
> ones to later remove them.
>
> Is there any way to do this directly within the db ?
IIRC, if they're PERL compatible which it would seem from the php
function you're using, no. Postgres supports POSIX regexes but not
(right now anyway) PERL regexes.
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