Re: patch adding new regexp functions

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: Jeremy Drake <pgsql(at)jdrake(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
Subject: Re: patch adding new regexp functions
Date: 2007-02-16 18:19:54
Message-ID: 200702161919.56500.peter_e@gmx.net
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David Fetter wrote:
> > The question is, what is the use case? If there is one in Perl,
> > can this proposed function API support it?
>
> Perl makes the following variables available in any regex match,

That is not a use case.

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Peter Eisentraut
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