Re: regcomp problems - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: regcomp problems
Date
Msg-id Pine.BSF.4.21.0103211230530.36201-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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In response to regcomp problems  ("Romolo Manfredini" <romolo@bicnet.it>)
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On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Romolo Manfredini wrote:

> Dear postgresql developers,
> I have found a small annoying bug in the SQL parser,
>
> executing the following query;
>
> select * from table where field ~* '*';
>
> or
>
> select * from table where field ~* '+';
>
> generate the following error:
>
> regcomp failed with error repetition-operator operand invalid
>
> the postgres I'm using is 7.0.3 compiled on linux 2.2.18

You're doing a regexp, both * and + have special meanings
in a regexp, you'll probably want to escape them (unfortunately
I think you need two backslashes to do it)

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