Alban Hertroys <haram...@gmail.com> writes: > On 4 Feb 2012, at 9:46, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: >> select 'depesz depeszx depesz' ~ E'^(.*)( \\1)+$';
> Apparently something odd is going on between the wildcard, the repetitive > part and the back-reference. That could be just us not seeing what's wrong > with the expression or be an actual bug. FYI, I've made some progress on characterizing the cause of this bug, as per comments at the upstream bug report: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1115587&group_id=10894&atid=110894 There are actually two distinct bugs involved, and I don't yet have a patch for the case depesz illustrates. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general