Re: 10g is a long way off I need regular expressions in 9i

From: Harald Maier <maierh_at_myself.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 05:32:56 +0200
Message-ID: <m3ad8fvy53.fsf@ate.maierh>

"Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-down_with_spammers_at_no_spam.comcast.net> writes:

> "Lucille Williams" <luluwilliams_at_earthlink.net> wrote:

>> Has anyone heard anything about Oracle retrofitting any features
>> from 10g to 9i? It would sure be nice to have regular expressions
>> in 9ir2.
>>
>> It took a long time for people to adopt 9i whole-heartedly so just
>> imagine how long it will take with 10g.
>>
>> Regular expressions are long overdue.
>>

> go to asktom.oracle.com and do a search. Remember Java is in the > db, so you can already do it. Jim

9ir2 still uses a JVM 1.3, but only Java 1.4 introduces builtin support for Regular expression. Sure you may use Regular expression packages written in Java, but I fear they are not so much fast. So support for a JVM 1.4 in 9ir2 would make sense.

Harald Received on Sun Oct 05 2003 - 22:32:56 CDT