"Harald Maier" <maierh_at_myself.com> wrote in message
news:m3ad8fvy53.fsf_at_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
Did you want to know how to do it or did you want to bitch about the feature
not being there as it is in 10G? I think you are mistaken if you think we
can do anything about adding a feature to an existing product. I'll call
Larry up and get him to command the change.
Jim
Received on Mon Oct 06 2003 - 08:22:02 CDT
