Adam Buraczewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ('a' similar to 'a' escape null) is true (should be unknown!)
Yeah, you are right; this is because we are overloading a "null" second
parameter to mean "the ESCAPE part wasn't present", which in hindsight
wasn't such a hot idea.
> I think that
Hallo Tom,
I decided to improve similar_escape() function during the weekend.
Thank you very much for the excerpt from SQL standard (I think this is
much more complete than the text I found in a Working Draft from
August 1994). However, there are some more issues I'd like to make
clear before fun
Adam Buraczewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ... for example the pattern 'a|z' (which should match single 'a' or 'z'
> characters only, according to SQL spec) is converted into POSIX
> regular expression in the form of '^a|z$' which matches all strings
> beginning with 'a' ('abcdef' for example)
