Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Anyone have an opinion on the portability of the regular expression >> functions defined in POSIX 1003.2,
> Does Windows come with POSIX regex libs? I would be a bit surprised. > When we discussed this at the conference I suggested to Magnus that he > not use regexes. When I did initdb I originally looked at using a regex > library, and realised that we really wouldn't need them, and the tiny > replacement routines I wrote would be sufficient. All we really need is something that can handle patterns including ".*", because that's all that is used in the patterns in "resultmap". That should be doable (inefficiently, but who cares) in just a few lines of code. I'll go for Plan B for the moment. > BTW, we I am pretty sure we *do* need MAX_CONNECTIONS it really > shouldn't be too hard to implement. Yeah, I thought the same --- you need it on a platform that won't let you run dozens of processes under one userid. Will take care of it. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq