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

Jim Kennedy wrote:

>"Harald Maier" <maierh_at_myself.com> wrote in message
>news:m3ad8fvy53.fsf_at_ate.maierh...
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>>"Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-down_with_spammers_at_no_spam.comcast.net> writes:
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>>>"Lucille Williams" <luluwilliams_at_earthlink.net> wrote:
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>>>>Has anyone heard anything about Oracle retrofitting any features
>>>>from 10g to 9i? It would sure be nice to have regular expressions
>>>>in 9ir2.
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>>>>It took a long time for people to adopt 9i whole-heartedly so just
>>>>imagine how long it will take with 10g.
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>>>>Regular expressions are long overdue.
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>>>go to asktom.oracle.com and do a search. Remember Java is in the
>>>db, so you can already do it. Jim
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>>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.
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>>Harald
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>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
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I can't think of a single reason why it would be in Oracle's best interests to back-port anything from 10g to 9i? Will doing so help them sell the product? Will doing so decrease the load of support calls? Will
doing so make the 9i kernel more stable?

If one wanted to walk down that road then I'd like a patch for LMT and UNDO in 7.3.4 too.

We are in IT. We need to upgrade to get new features. That is the law.

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