Karsten Hilbert <[email protected]> writes:
> What I don't understand is: Why does the following return a
> substring ?

>       select substring ('junk $<allergy::test::99>$ junk' from 
> '\$<[^<]+?::[^:]+?>\$');

There's a perfectly valid match in which [^<]+? matches allergy::test
and [^:]+? matches 99.

                        regards, tom lane


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