On 23/02/07, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Anton Melser" <melser.anton@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I need to be able to get all the matches for a particular regexp from > a text field that I need to use in another query in a function. Is > this possible with plpgsql? Do I have to install the perl language? You need plperl (or pltcl; likely plpython would work too) --- the built-in regex functions don't have any way to return more than the first match. There's a patch pending to provide more functionality here for 8.3, but it won't help you today.
Thanks for the info Cheers Anton
