See notes, 113827.1, 119426.1, 154880.1. Could be done and done, but
not to solve this particular task -- it would be an overkill. :)
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Jared.Still_at_radisys.com wrote:
> Definitely worth trying if you have a need for it.
>
> I don't, and it's more work than I want to do just because I can.
>
> *Mladen Gogala*
>
> Actually, I was toying with the idea of writing an external
> procedure that would allow me to call pcre library
> (PCRE=Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) which would be nice,
> but then again, the whole perl is available through the set
> of external procedures, so it wouldn't be very useful.
> External procedures can be used in the where clause, provided
> they're declared as deterministic. Actually, it wouldn't be
> that hard to extend 9.2 database with regular expressions.
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