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James Taylor commented on PHOENIX-2646: --------------------------------------- bq. I looked into doing my own UDF but shied away because of BYO class versioning. Can you expand on this, [~ndimiduk] as I don't understand the concern. Using UDFs seems like the right way to go here while we finish the Calcite integration. > Extend VARCHAR matching with ~ regex syntax > ------------------------------------------- > > Key: PHOENIX-2646 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-2646 > Project: Phoenix > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Nick Dimiduk > > We already support {{REGEXP}} functions for string manipulation. Let's add > full regex matching support as well. For example, Postgres has the {{~}} > operator for [POSIX regular expression > matching|http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/functions-matching.html#FUNCTIONS-POSIX-REGEXP]. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)