In article <13289.1260290974@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Julian Mehnle <julian@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> So far, so good. However, can someone please explain the following to me?
>> wisu-dev=# SELECT regexp_matches('quux@foo@bar.zip', '([@.]|[^@.]+)+', 'g');
>> wisu-dev=# SELECT regexp_matches('quux@foo@bar.zip', '([@.]|[^@.]+){1,2}', 'g');
>> wisu-dev=# SELECT regexp_matches('quux@foo@bar.zip', '([@.]|[^@.]+){1,3}', 'g');
> These might be a bug, but the behavior doesn't seem to me that it'd be
> terribly well defined in any case. The function should be pulling the
> match to the parenthesized subexpression, but here that subexpression
> has got multiple matches --- which one would you expect to get?
Perl seems to return always the last one, but the last one is never just
'p' - so I also think that Julian has spotted a bug.
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