I'm usually ok at Regex stuff, but this one is driving me a bit crazy. Here's a string in a single field. I'm trying to grab the long db query bit. --------------------------------------------------------------- initial time: 0.0001058578491210 After _request set time: 0.0001859664916992 Before include modules time: 0.001070976257324 Before session_start time: 0.003780841827392 SessionHandler read() start time: 0.004056930541992 SessionHandler read() query finished: SELECT * FROM sessions WHERE session_id = 'f5ca5ec95965e8ac99ec9bc31eca84c6' time: 0.005122900009155 After session start time: 0.005219936370849 After create db time: 0.005784034729003 before create new session time: 0.005914926528930 session call constructor 1 time: 0.005953073501586 session call constructor (org loaded) time: 0.008623838424682 session call constructor (finished) time: 0.01247286796569LONG DB QUERY (db1, 4.9376289844513): UPDATE force_session SET last_used_timestamp = 'now'::timestamp WHERE orgid = 15723 AND session_id = 'f5ca5ec95965e8ac99ec9bc31eca84c6New session created time: 5.03999090194 Session set up time: 5.040019989013 Behavior loaded time: 5.040072917938 Start of page body time: 5.129977941513 End of page body time: 6.25822091102 --------------------------------------------------------- I'm using this substring to grab part of it: select substring (notes from E'LONG DB QUERY.+time: [0-9]+.[0-9]+') from table where id=1; And that returns this: LONG DB QUERY (db1, 4.9376289844513): UPDATE force_session SET last_used_timestamp = 'now'::timestamp WHERE orgid = 15723 AND session_id = 'f5ca5ec95965e8ac99ec9bc31eca84c6New session created time: 5.03999090194 : Session set up time: 5.040019989013 : Behavior loaded time: 5.040072917938 : Start of page body time: 5.129977941513 : End of page body time: 6.25822091102 Which is not surprising. It's greedy. So, I turn off the greediness of the first + with a ? and then I get this select substring (notes from E'LONG DB QUERY.+?time: [0-9]+.[0-9]+') from table where id=1; LONG DB QUERY (db1, 4.9376289844513): UPDATE force_session SET last_used_timestamp = 'now'::timestamp WHERE orgid = 15723 AND session_id = 'f5ca5ec95965e8ac99ec9bc31eca84c6New session created time: 5.0 Now, I'm pretty sure that with the [0-9]+.[0-9]+ I should be getting 5.03999090194 at the end. I know the . is a regex match for one char there. There's only ever one number before it, but changing the . to \. doesn't help either. Any ideas? I'm guessing some old hand at regex will look at it and see what I'm doing wrong, but I'm not seeing it.