Re: [GENERAL] excessive escaping in regular expression functions

2011-01-18 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Jan 18, 2011, at 14:52, A.M. wrote: > Is there a better way? Use dollar quotes or standard quoting instead of E strings. Michael Glaesemann grzm seespotcode net -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgr

[GENERAL] excessive escaping in regular expression functions

2011-01-18 Thread A.M.
Hello, The following statement replaces an asterisk in a string with a double-escaped asterisk: SELECT regexp_replace('*',E'\\*',E'\*'); I got this result through experimentation and I am at a loss to explain why so much escaping is necessary for the third argument. Is there a better wa