Re: [GENERAL] Writing regex in PL's

2004-08-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 14:40, David Garamond wrote: > Is there anyone on this list who has preferred to use regexes from PL's > (e.g. plperl, plruby) in CHECK constraints or other places instead of > the flavor provided by Postgres? Do you find your approach satisfying? > Do you also do things li

[GENERAL] Writing regex in PL's

2004-08-07 Thread David Garamond
Is there anyone on this list who has preferred to use regexes from PL's (e.g. plperl, plruby) in CHECK constraints or other places instead of the flavor provided by Postgres? Do you find your approach satisfying? Do you also do things like cache the pattern so you don't have to compile the rege