Stephan Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Tom Lane wrote: >> Is this what we want? Arguably regexp_split is doing the most >> reasonable thing for its intended usage, but the strict definition of >> regexp matching seems to require what regexp_matches does. I think >> we need to either change one function to match the other, or else >> document the inconsistency.
> I'm not sure how many languages do this, but at least perl seems to work > similarly, which makes me guess that it's probably similar in a bunch of > languages. If it is, then we should probably just document the > inconsistency. The Perl precedent is good enough for me. Documented... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq