Re: Prob with regexp - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Prob with regexp
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0103252215330.941-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Prob with regexp  (Philippe Rochat <mlrochat@lbdsun.epfl.ch>)
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Philippe Rochat writes:

> I think there is a prob with regexp, which is comparing one less
> character as it should. Below is an example. Result is that last
> character is omitted !

A '*' means "zero or more of the preceeding character".  You probably want
a '+'.

>
> Ph.R.
>
> postgres=# select * from pg_database where datname ~ 'ibd01*';
>  datname | datdba | encoding | datpath
> ---------+--------+----------+---------
>  ibd00_8 |    505 |        0 | ibd00_8
>  ibd00_1 |    505 |        0 | ibd00_1
>  ibd00_2 |    505 |        0 | ibd00_2
>  ibd00_3 |    505 |        0 | ibd00_3
>  ibd00_4 |    505 |        0 | ibd00_4
>  ibd00_5 |    505 |        0 | ibd00_5
>  ibd00_6 |    505 |        0 | ibd00_6
>  ibd00_7 |    505 |        0 | ibd00_7
>  ibd00_9 |    505 |        0 | ibd00_9
>  ibd01_1 |    505 |        0 | ibd01_1
>  ibd01_2 |    505 |        0 | ibd01_2
>  ibd01_3 |    505 |        0 | ibd01_3
>  ibd01_4 |    505 |        0 | ibd01_4
>  ibd01_5 |    505 |        0 | ibd01_5
> (14 rows)
>
> postgres=# select * from pg_database where datname ~ 'ibd01_*';
>  datname | datdba | encoding | datpath
> ---------+--------+----------+---------
>  ibd01_1 |    505 |        0 | ibd01_1
>  ibd01_2 |    505 |        0 | ibd01_2
>  ibd01_3 |    505 |        0 | ibd01_3
>  ibd01_4 |    505 |        0 | ibd01_4
>  ibd01_5 |    505 |        0 | ibd01_5
> (5 rows)
>

-- 
Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/



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