Toomas Vendelin <pg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > In the following chunk of PlPerl code the date doesn't match the regex: > my $endby = '2009-06-13'; > my $t = spi_exec_query(qq|SELECT CASE WHEN '$endby' ~ E'.*\\d\\d\\d\\d > \\-\\d\\d?\\-\\d\\d?.*' > THEN '$endby'::timestamptz ELSE CURRENT_DATE::timestamptz END AS > test|); Backslash is an active escape character in qq constants, no? You'd need to double all those backslashes, or choose a different quoting method for the query. (And I hope this is all encased in dollar quoting for the function body...) regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
