Tom,

> regression=# select 'foo' ~* '';
> ERROR:  regcomp failed with error empty (sub)expression
> 
> This is correct according to the POSIX definition of regular
> expressions
> ("A (modern) RE is one or more non-empty branches ...").

That sounds like what I'm seeing!  And now that you point it out, there
is a bug in the PHP that calls this function that passes an empty string
('') instead of a NULL.  Thanks!

Any possibility that that error message could be made more informative?
(i.e. ERROR:  regcomp failed due to empty string in regular expression)

-Josh Berkus



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