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From Brent DeSpain
Subject Extending Regular Expression bounds limit of 255.
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Responses Re: Extending Regular Expression bounds limit of 255.  (Andrej <andrej.groups@gmail.com>)
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In the docs <a
href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/functions-matching.html#POSIX-EMBEDDED-OPTIONS-TABLE">http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/functions-matching.html#POSIX-EMBEDDED-OPTIONS-TABLE</a><br
/>it says that Regular Expression bounds {m,n} that m and n can be 0-255.  Is there a way to extend the upper limit. 
Weare trying to be consistent between Regular Expressionimplementation an the other implementations do not have this
limit.<br/><br clear="all" />Brent DeSpain<br />Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.<br />

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