Scott Marlowe wrote:
>> In particular, MySQl seems to have richer string functions to parse
>> out sub strings and als trim a string for automatic table insertion
>> from long multifield strings.
>
> Have you read the postgresql manual on string functions? Seriously,
> it's easily a match for MySQL in that arena, and beats it hands down
> in a few.
And if you need more - like extracting Noun Clauses from sentences
you can do that with PostgreSQL and Pl/Perl using natural language
processing libraries that are callable from perl.
I'd be interested to know how MySQL would handle that kind
of string processing function.