On 25 June 2010 10:50, John Gage <jsmgage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In the words of Dwight Eisenhower, I couldn't fail to disagree with you > less. That said... > > Replying to my own post, and on further examination of the MySQL > documentation, I am astonished to discover that MySQL does not support > regular expressions much less something like tsvector. Please disabuse me > of this idea if I am mistaken. > > To me, this turns MySQL into a toy. Regular expressions are an > extraordinarily powerful tool rooted in science that make manipulating text > data infinitely easier. To leave them out of a system (recall that the > Macintosh is based on Unix and supports egrep, for example, out of the box) > is unbelievably backward. > I still find it frustrating that I can't use Perl-style regular expressions in PostgreSQL though... although it might be the case that it does, and that I just don't know how to use it. Thom -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
