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From	David G. Johnston
Subject	Re: regexp_replace not respecting greediness
Date	September 19 17:09:43
Msg-id	CAKFQuwYVm=NX1oo6kHUn3EdGuXJphq89EmjgeaCJDk_dpRjUew@mail.gmail.com Whole thread Raw
In response to	regexp_replace not respecting greediness (Simon Ellmann <simon.ellmann@tum.de>)
Responses	Re: regexp_replace not respecting greediness
List	pgsql-bugs

On Friday, September 19, 2025, Simon Ellmann <simon.ellmann@tum.de> wrote:

With the following regular expression, the second .* seems to match non-greedily although (if I am correct) it should match greedily:

Working as documented in rule 6:

David J.

From: Simon Ellmann
Date: 19 September, 15:36:20
Subject: regexp_replace not respecting greediness

From: Tom Lane
Date: 19 September, 19:01:53
Subject: Re: regexp_replace not respecting greediness