[GENERAL] Executing regex in C code

[Gabriel Furstenheim Milerud]

Hi,
I'm trying to execute the equivalent to '~' with regexp from within C code.
According to pg_operator
<https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/c7b8998ebbf310a156aa38022555a24d98fdbfb4/src/include/catalog/pg_operator.h>this
operator for type text corresponds to textregexeq:

  DATA(insert OID = 641 ( "~" PGNSP PGUID b f f 25 25 16 0 642 textregexeq
regexeqsel regexeqjoinsel ));
  DESCR("matches regular expression, case-sensitive");

I've tried to execute it from the C code:

  text * s = cstring_to_text("aa");
  text * p = cstring_to_text("a");
  return DatumGetBool(DirectFunctionCall2(textregexeq, PointerGetDatum(s),
PointerGetDatum(p)));

But I'm getting an error with collate:

ERROR:  could not determine which collation to use for regular expression
HINT:  Use the COLLATE clause to set the collation explicitly.

Any hints on how to proceed? Of course if I do select 'aa'~'a'; from psql
it works like a charm.

Thanks in advance.